State v. Jones
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from McPherson District Court. Information, charging Jones with “willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously” defiling a female under eighteen years of age, she “being then and there confided to the care and protection” of said Jones by her parents.
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Appeal from McPherson District Court. Information, charging Jones with “willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously” defiling a female under eighteen years of age, she “being then and there confided to the care and protection” of said Jones by her parents. A plea in- abatement was filed, in support of which defendant gave in evidence the record of an examination had and held on the 27th of January 1876, by and before J. "W. H. and W. L. E., two justices of the peace, on a complaint made by R. B. Holbrook charging Jones with said offense, on which examination said jústices found “that no offense…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This was a criminal prosecution under §233 of the crimes-and-punishment act, (Gen. Stat. 369,) charging the defendant with defiling a female under eighteen years of age by carnally knowing her while she was confided to his care and protection. As we understand, the defendant *610waives all objections to the proceedings of the court below, which if sustained would merely require a new trial, and asks that we shall decide the case upon such questions only as go to the very foundation of the present prosecution. This we shall do.
I. The defendant…
2Cited by19 opinions
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- In re OxleyNevada Supreme Court · 1915
- State v. BaddersSupreme Court of Kansas · 1935
- State v. BloomerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1966
- State v. JordanSupreme Court of Kansas · 1964
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