GOODROW v. PERRIN

No. 78-088.

119 N.H. 483 (1979)

ALBERT GOODROW, JR. v. EVERETT PERRIN, WARDEN NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE PRISON & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

June 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor S. Krasnow, of Manchester, by brief and orally, for the plaintiff.

Thomas D. Rath, attorney general (Andrew R. Grainger, assistant attorney general, orally), for the State.


LAMPRON, C.J.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The plaintiff challenges the constitutionality of RSA 632-A:3 (Supp. 1977) (statutory rape law). We reject the plaintiff's arguments and accordingly deny the petition.

The plaintiff, Albert Goodrow, Jr., was indicted on October 28, 1976, by the Sullivan County Grand Jury. The charge read that he "[d]id purposely have sexual relations with B . . . R. . ., a minor child of fourteen years (14 years...

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