(DOWNLOAD) "Oregon v. Howard" by Supreme Court of Pennsylvania * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Oregon v. Howard
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 19, 1958
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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OCONNELL, Justice. On December 6, 1957 an indictment was returned by the grand jury of Lane County against the defendant, charging him with the crime of sodomy in violation of ORS 167.040. The indictment charged that on September 27, 1957 the defendant sustained osculatory relations with the private parts of Robert Allen Jewell. The defendant pleaded not guilty. When the cause came on for trial the defendant moved that the State be required to elect a specific day upon which the alleged offense occurred. The State elected to prove that the crime occurred on August 1, 1957. Jewell testified that the last time the offense had been committed was three or four weeks prior to September 7, 1957; that similar acts had occurred ten or twelve times during the preceding four years; that the act had occurred three times in 1957 and that these acts occurred from two to four months apart. He testified that during the investigation he had stated that the act charged in the indictment had occurred on September 27, 1957 but that this act did not amount to sodomy because there was no penetration. He then stated that the act charged in the indictment had occurred around the first of August, and on further questioning stated it was pretty close to the first, I would say about the first week. It was pretty close to the first of the month. Later in the trial counsel