State v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““At the February term of the district court of Marion county, in 1885, the grand jury found two indictments against Robert Calhoun for defiling females under the age of 18 years, committed to his care and protection, by carnally knowing them. The fact of such indictments having been found became known in the community. The public mind became greatly excited and hostile to the accused. Threats of lynching him were freely made, and preparations to carry out the same were apparently going on. Knowledge of these threats and preparations was communicated to the accused, who was then in jail, and the same produced in his mind such a state of fear, that, to appease the passions of the community, and secure himself from bodily violence, he pleaded guilty to the charges contained in such indictments, and was sentenced to the maximum limit of punishment — 21 years’ confinement in the penitentiary at hard labor, in each case.” (State v. Calhoun, 50 Kan. 523, 528 , 32 Pac. 38 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hawkins

2. “existed at common law there can be no doubt, and we think it still exists wherever it is necessary to invoke its aid”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 294 Or. App. 711 - Reeves v. Nooth