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The Resistance Standard In Rape Legislation, Roger B. Dworkin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Incidence Of The Death Penalty For Rape In Virginia, Donald H. Partington

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Criminal Law--Reasonable Mistake Of Age As Defense In Statutory Rape, Robin Wiseman

West Virginia Law Review

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Rape-Specific Or General Intent Crime?

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Statutory Rape--Previous Chaste Character, R. J. W.

West Virginia Law Review

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Criminal Law And Procedure - New Trial - Motion For New Trial For Newly Discovered Evidence - Recantation By Important Witness For The State, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

After conviction of rape allegedly committed upon defendant's thirteen year old daughter, defendant, on motion for new trial, produced an affidavit of the daughter recanting the testimony against defendant which the daughter had given at the trial. Held, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to grant a new trial. Sutton v. State, (Ark. 1938) 122 S. W. (2d) 617.

Constitutional Law - Validity Of Sex Offender Acts, William K. Jackson

Michigan Law Review

The sex offender has become an acute problem. Sociologists, psychiatrists, and lawyers sensing the imperative need for action have devoted much time and thought to the questions involved. Experience has shown that the sex offender is generally a recidivist; he has to be arrested and committed repeatedly for the same type of crimes. The point is graphically illustrated by the case of a man, fifty-nine years of age, arrested recently in Detroit for a sex offense involving a youth. An examination of his record showed that he had been arrested in 1899, when twenty-one years of age, on charges involving …

Insurance - Execution For A Criminal Offense, Herman J. Bloom

Michigan Law Review

The insured was convicted and legally executed for the crime of rape. The beneficiary sued on a life insurance policy which contained no express exemption from liability in the event of death resulting from the legal execution of the insured. The court held that the beneficiary was entitled to recover under the public policy as declared in the constitutional provision against corruption of blood and forfeiture of estate. Progressive Life Insurance Co. v. Dean, (Ark. 1936) 97 S. W. (2d) 62.

Criminal Law And Procedure - Homicide - Causal Relation Between Defendant's Unlawful Act And The Death

Michigan Law Review

Though the books are replete with homicides in which the elusive doctrine of proximate cause has vexed both courts and commentators, it may be ventured that no case has more strikingly run the gamut of proximate cause perplexities than Stephenson v. State. There it appeared that the deceased, an unmarried girl of good reputation and social standing, had been drugged and then raped by defendant in circumstances of the most atrocious brutality. In her dying declaration, admitted by the trial court into evidence, she deposed that "he chewed her all over her body; bit her neck and face; chewed …

Evidence-Corroboration In Criminal Cases

Michigan Law Review

On the night of September 12, 1931, Mrs. Thalia Massie, while walking unescorted along a road near Honolulu, was forced into a car, taken to a lonely spot, and attacked by five young men. The five alleged attackers were placed on trial for rape. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and a mistrial was declared.

Letter From Attorney General Langer To E. L. D** Regarding State V. Stepp Case, July 6, 1920, William Langer

William Langer Papers

In this letter, dated July 6, 1920, from North Dakota (ND) Attorney General William Langer to Mr. E. L. D** of Sarles, ND, father of the complainant in the State v. Stepp statutory rape case, Langer makes reference to an enclosed copy of a letter he has written to Cavalier County, ND State's Attorney G. Grimson in reply to Grimson's request to get Judge Nuchols to help in re-trying State v. Stepp. Langer says he wishes he could send Judge Nuchols to help with the case.

The letter Langer refers to as being enclosed was not found with this letter …

Letter From Attorney General Langer To L. F. Hinegardner Regarding Acquisition Of Legal Transcript, February 14, 1919, William Langer

William Langer Papers

In this letter, dated February 14, 1919, from North Dakota (ND) Attorney General William Langer to L. F. Hinegardner of Sarles, ND in response to Hinegardner's letter of February 10, 1919.

Langer acknowledges receipt of Hinegardner's letter, as well as the enclosed statements from Mr. and Mrs. D** and Sarles village marshall Alvah Phillebaum.

Langer says that everything said during the proceedings should have been recorded by a stenographer, and says he will contact Judge Kneeshaw to request a transcript of the proceedings.

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Letter from G. Grimson to Attorney General Langer Regarding Initial Proceedings in Stepp Case, January …

Cases On Criminal Law, Jerome C. Knowlton, John W. Dwyer

Books

This book of cases is prepared with the idea of assisting the student in his study of the substantive law of crimes. It is thought, however that the topical arrangement made, with an illustrative case under each topic may occasionally give the practitioner a leader over some troublesome path of investigation.