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· 10/15/1909

Beason v. State

Citations

  • 96 Miss. 105
  • 50 So. 488

Syllabus

<p>■Ceiminal Law and Peooeddre. Rape. Capacity to commit. Infant v,n-Aer fourteen years of age.</p> <p>A male child under fourteen years of age cannot be convicted of rape, in the absence of evidence to show his mental and physical ability to commit the crime.</p>

Judges: Smith

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