Legal Opinion

People v. Brown

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 23, 1906No. Docket No. 251PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Error to Van Burén; Carr, J. Ela Brown was convicted of statutory rape, and sentenced to imprisonment for two years in the branch of the •State prison at Marquette.

1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.

The defendant was convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for the offense of statutory rape; the girl being a few days under 16 years of age according to the testimony upon the subject. The act was proved by her own and other testimony, and, as mo testimony was offered for the defendant, it is not in *623•any way contradicted. The time fixed was late in June, 1904. Her sixteenth birthday was July 15, 1904.

The first error assigned relates to testimony of other -acts of intercourse, all after July 15, 1904, and proof by a physician that she was pregnant in March and May, 1905, together…

2Cases cited47 opinions

  1. People v. ClarkMichigan Supreme Court · 1876
  2. Perrott v. ShearerMichigan Supreme Court · 1868
  3. People v. FinleyMichigan Supreme Court · 1878
  4. People v. SchweitzerMichigan Supreme Court · 1871
  5. Wheeler v. WallaceMichigan Supreme Court · 1884

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Kidwell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1912
  2. People v. SerraMichigan Supreme Court · 1942
  3. People v. NicholsMichigan Supreme Court · 1909
  4. Merrill v. LeisenringMichigan Supreme Court · 1911
  5. People v. BorowskiMichigan Supreme Court · 1951

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