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· 1/15/1872

Nisson v. Wessels

Citations

  • 18 F. Cas. 279
  • 5 Ben. 483

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  • in rape prosecution, it was reversible error for the state to cross-examine the defendant and to compel him to answer questions over objection to suggest he had permitted other little girls to call at his home for the past five or six years so that he could rape them

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Judges: Benedict

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