DRISCOLL v. STATE


232 S.W.2d 28 (1950)

DRISCOLL v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 15, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Haile, Cookeville, for plaintiff in error.

Nat Tipton, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

This appeal is from a conviction of abduction of an eighteen year old girl who is named in the indictment for the purpose of prostitution, Code section 10790, with the maximum punishment fixed at five years' imprisonment.

After Driscoll had entered a plea of not guilty and the jury had been impaneled, he made a motion to quash the indictment because it failed (1) to charge that this girl was in the legal custody of her parents, or (2) that...

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