Brown v. State

Nicholson, Ch.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

Maria Brown, the plaintiff in error, was tried in the Court of General Sessions of the State of Delaware, in and for New Castle County, upon an indictment founded upon Section one of Chapter 686, Volume 18, Laws of Delaware, as amended by Chapter 127, Volume 20, Laws of Delaware, which reads as follows:

“Section 1. Whoever takes, receives, employs, harbors or uses, or causes or procures to be taken, received, employed, harbored, or used, a male or female under the age of eighteen years for the purpose of sexual intercourse; or whoever being…