State v. Harness
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from District Court of Nez Perce County. Honorable Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Defendant was tried and convicted of the crime of rape. From the judgment and order overruling bis motion for a new trial be appeals. The facts are stated in the opinion. It was competent for the defendant to cross-examine the witness as to her antecedents, character and past conduct, and thus impair her credibility.
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APPEAL from District Court of Nez Perce County. Honorable Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Defendant was tried and convicted of the crime of rape. From the judgment and order overruling bis motion for a new trial be appeals. The facts are stated in the opinion. It was competent for the defendant to cross-examine the witness as to her antecedents, character and past conduct, and thus impair her credibility. This line of inquiry became important, because of the contention that the prosecution was prompted by the malice of this witness resulting from a failure to extort money, and more, the circumstances…
1Opinion of the Court
STOCKSLAGER, J. —
This is an appeal from the district court of Nez Perce county. The county attorney filed an information in said court charging the defendant with the crime of rape, to wit: “On the twelfth day of February, 1903, at the county of Nez Perce, in the state of Idaho, the aforesaid Eavid Harness then and there being committed the crime of rape by then and there feloniously, with force and violence making an assault upon one Rosa Harness, who was not then and there the wife of the said David Harness, and did then and there feloniously ravish and carnally know and accomplish with…
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- Brandon v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
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- State v. WellsSupreme Court of Kansas · 1894
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