Harris v. State

Citations

• 72 Fla. 128
• 72 So. 520

Syllabus

<p>1. Assignments of error not argued will be treated as having been abandoned.</p> <p>2. Testimony as to an extra judicial confession made by a defendant in a criminal prosecution is properly admitted over the objection that there has been no proof of the corpus delicti, when testimony as to the corpus delicti has been previously adduced, even though such testimony may not be entirely clear and satisfactory.</p> <p>3. In a criminal prosecution for carnal intercourse with an un married female under the age of eighteen years the following charge is not erroneous: “To constitute carnal intercourse there must have been actual contact of the male organ with the female organ resulting in penetration of the female by the male organ to some extent, but not necessarily to the extent of puncturing the hymen. It is also unnecessary for the State to prove emission of seed.”</p>