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32 Me. 585

State v. Fielding

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided May 15, 1851

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1851-05-15

Indictment for an assault upon one Joanna Roberts, with intent, her the said Joanna Roberts feloniously to ravish and carnally know by force and against her will. The defendant moved the court to quash the indictment, because it does not set forth whether said Joanna was of the age of ten years, or under that age. The motion was refused, and the defendant filed exceptions. The defendant also moved in arrest of judgment.

Decided 1851-05-15

Wells, J.,

¶1orally.—The offence may have been one, to which the greater of the penalties mentioned by the. counsel should attach; and it may have been one to which the less penalty should attach.

¶2Of one or of the other, the defendant is guilty. He cannot complain of a decision which should hold him for the minor offence, and of that offence he is adjudged guilty.

¶3Exceptions overruled.

¶4The argument. in support of the motion in arrest, is, that Joanna Roberts is not alleged to be a female. But the name is that of a female, and in the indictment she is twice spoken of as a female; by the use of the feminine pronoun.

¶5Motion overruled.

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