Case ID: ind_154/html/0442-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Baker, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McFarland v. The State.
    [No. 19,238.
    Filed April 6, 1900.]
    Criminal Law. — Rape.—Evidence.—Where in a conviction for rape the evidence failed to show the name of the person upon whom the rape was alleged to have been committed the, judgment will be reversed.
    From the Hamilton Circuit Court.
    
      Reversed.
    
    
      8. D. 8tuart and C. Q. Reagan, for appellant.
    
      W. L. Taylor, Attorney-General, Merrill Moores, C. C. Hadley and J. F. Carver, for State.
   Baker, J.

Appellant was convicted of rape. The affidavit and information name Laura Yan Buskirk as .the alleged victim. In the evidence, the only name proved was Lillie, — nothing more. The name was an essential element in the legal description of the offense. McLaughlin v. State, 52 Ind. 279; McLaughlin v. State, 52 Ind. 476; Black v. State, 57 Ind. 109; Mitchell v. State, 63 Ind. 276. for failure of proof, the judgment is reversed, with directions to sustain the motion for a new trial.