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- Title
INDICTMENT.
- Abstract
The article presents information about a court's decision in the U.S. regarding indictment. The article refers to the case -- Zoborowsky versus the State of Indiana (102 N. E. 825). It was a case about allegation of age in rape. Burns' Ann; Stat., 1908, Sec. 2250 provides that whoever unlawfully has carnal knowledge of a female child under 16 years of age is guilty of rape. The Court held that an indictment charging that accused did unlawfully touch the person of N -- with the unlawful and feloneous intent to ravish her, she being then a child under the age of 12 years, to wit, 10 years of age, was not objectionable, as using the words twelve years, instead of sixteen years, the statutory age of consent; since the statute merely fixes a definite time below which the crime is committed, without reference to the consent of the female, and an allegation that the age of the victim is below the statutory limit of consent is sufficient.
- Subjects
INDICTMENTS; SEX crimes; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); CRIME &; age; AGE of consent; CRIMINAL procedure
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p743
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article