State v. Hardin
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clackamas: James U. Campbell, Judge. The defendant, William Marlin Hardin, was convicted of the crime of statutory rape upon his stepdaughter, Eva Phelps, formerly Eva Woods, a girl under the age of 16 years, and from a sentence following such conviction he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
The indictment charges the crime to have been committed on the 15th day of October, 1911, and alleges the defendant, William Marlin Hardin, did then carnally know said Eva Phelps, a female child under the age of sixteen years. The defendant entered a plea of not guilty. At the commencement of the trial, counsel for defendant requested the prosecution to fix a date of the offense upon which it was intended to base the case. The district attorney stated that the State would rely upon the act which produced the pregnancy, committed on or about October 15, 1909, the date “1911” in the indictment…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Commonwealth v. NicholsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- State v. RobinsonOregon Supreme Court · 1897
- State v. EgglestonOregon Supreme Court · 1904
- State v. CossOregon Supreme Court · 1909
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1884
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- State v. LinnOregon Supreme Court · 1946
- State of Oregon v. RisenOregon Supreme Court · 1951
- State v. RogersIdaho Supreme Court · 1929
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