State v. Cyr

The respondent was tried on an indictment charging him with the crime against nature by committing sodomy with a certain female person, and he was convicted. The evidence established beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of committing the filthy and unnatural sexual act known to medical jurisprudence as fellatio. The case comes forward on his exception to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict of not guilty.

Since this state was first established, the offense laid in the indictment has been prohibited by statute. The present law as stated in R. S., Chap. 135, Sec. 3 reads:

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