State v. Pitman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted of sodomy committed upon an eleven-year-old boy June 11th, 1922.

The indictment charged that the defendant “in and upon one C. P., a youth about the age of eleven years, then and there being, feloniously did make an assault and then and there feloniously, wickedly, diabolically and against the order of nature had a venereal affair with and carnally knew the said C. P., and then and there feloniously, wickedly, diabolically and against the order of nature with the said C. P., did commit and perpetrate the…