Love v. State

Ethridge, C.

There is here involved the sufficiency of an indictment for indecent assault on a female child which omits to charge that defendant was over the age of eighteen years, although the statute enumerates this as an element of the offense.

Appellant, John Thomas Love, was indicted, tried, and convicted at the September, 1950, term of the Circuit Court of Attala County, Mississippi, of the crime of indecent assault upon or violation of the person of a female child under the age of thirteen years, as set forth in Miss. Code of 1942, Sec. 2052. That statute provides in part as follows:…