Beason v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Forrest county. HoN. William; H. CbOK, Judge. Beason, appellant, a boy under the age of fourteen years, was indicted, and tried for rápe, was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court sufficiently states the facts. The evidence showed that the appellant was under the age of fourteen years at the time of the alleged crime.
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From the circuit court of Forrest county. HoN. William; H. CbOK, Judge. Beason, appellant, a boy under the age of fourteen years, was indicted, and tried for rápe, was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court sufficiently states the facts. The evidence showed that the appellant was under the age of fourteen years at the time of the alleged crime. There was no evidence to contradict this, or to show that appellant was .abnormally developed, either mentally or physically. I't is a well settled doctrine, and forcibly so in…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Appellant, a boy under the age of fourteen years, was convicted in the court below of the crime of rape. There was no evidence of his mental capacity to entertain a criminal intent, or of his physical ability to commit the crime of rape. At the close of the evidence, appellant requested, and was refused, an ins-traction charging the jury to find him not guilty. A criminal intent is an essential element of every crime. Such an intent cannot be entertained by an infant until he or she has developed sufficient intelligence and moral perception to dis-*108tinguisli between right and wrong and to…
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