TOM WATSON, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DEFENDANT IN ERROR
TOM WATSON, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DEFENDANT IN ERROR
72 Fla. 16
Florida Supreme Court (1916)
Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases
Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam.
—Watson was convicted of the statutory offense of having carnal intercourse with an unmar ried female under the age of eighteen years and took writ of error. As there is no evidence whatever that the female was unmarried, an essential element of the crime is not proven, therefore the judgment is reversed.
All concur.
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Hand v. State, 152 Fla. 29 (Fla. 1942)…unmarried female of previous chaste character and under eighteen years of age. Appellant insists that the judgment should be reversed because the State failed to prove that the alleged victim was unmarried and relies on the case of Watson v. State, 72 Fla. 16, 72 So. 370, which contention, if supported by the record, would be supported by our holding in that case. In this case there was no direct and positive testimony that the alleged victim had never been married but this element of the offense may be…