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STATE v. GEDDES

No. 4618.

101 N.H. 164 (1957)

STATE v. ALBERT LELAND GEDDES.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided November 26, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis C. Wyman, Attorney General, and William J. Deachman, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Craig and Craig for the defendant.

BLANDIN, J.

The defendant's claim that the indictment was insufficient and should have been quashed rests on the sole ground that it alleged commission of the crime of incest with the defendant's daughter "while the State proved that the crime was [committed] with his stepdaughter." Since incest was not a crime at common law (42 C. J. S., Incest, s. 1 b), the question whether the indictment was proper is one of statutory...

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