Case Name: State v. Taylor
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1878-06
Citations: 58 N.H. 331
Docket Number: 
Parties: State v. Taylor.
Judges: Allen, J., did not sit.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 58
Pages: 331–331

Head Matter:
State v. Taylor.
An unmarried man having sexual intercourse with a married woman is not guilty of fornication, but of adultery.
Indictment, lor fornication. The defendant was a single man, and the other party to the act a married woman. A motion to qnash was refused, and the defendant excepted.
Greene, solicitor, for the state.
Barnard Sf Leach, for the defendant.

Opinion:
Foster, J.
An unmarried man having sexual intercouse with a married woman is guilty of adultery. Gen. St., c. 256, s. 2. Adultery is committed whenever there is an intercourse from which spurious issue may arise. State v. Wallace, 9 N. H. 515, 517; Bishop on St. Crimes, s. 657; Bouv. Law Dic., Fornication. Upon the case stated, the defendant cannot be convicted of the offence charged.
Exception sustained,.
Allen, J., did not sit.