Case Name: Shonfield v. State of Indiana
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1925-10-16
Citations: 196 Ind. 579
Docket Number: No. 24,924
Parties: Shonfield v. State of Indiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 196
Pages: 579–580

Head Matter:
Shonfield v. State of Indiana.
[No. 24,924.
Filed October 16, 1925.]
A. E. Needham, for appellant..
Arthur L. Gilliom, Attorney-General and George M. Barnard, for the State.

Opinion:
Gemmill, J.
The appellant was charged by affidavit with the crime of rape upon a female child under the age of consent. He was tried by jury and convicted of assault and battery. Judgment of fine and imprisonment was rendered on the verdict. He has appealed from said judgment.
One of the errors assigned is that the court erred in overruling the motion of appellant to quash the affidavit. The affidavit was filed on June 25, 1924, and it alleges that the crime therein charged was committed on or about October 1, 1924. The state, by the attorney general, has filed a confession of error herein, part of which is as follows: "The court erred in overruling appellant's motion to quash the affidavit for it appears upon the face thereof that the date laid upon which the offense was alleged to have been committed was subsequent to the date of filing the affidavit." If a future date is given iii an indictment or affidavit, same is insufficient. State v. Noland (1867), 29 Ind. 212; Hutchinson v. State (1878), 62 Ind. 556; Murphy v. State (1886), 106 Ind. 96, 5 N. E. 767, 55 Am. Rep. 722; State v. Patterson (1887), 116 Ind. 45, 18 N. E. 270; Terrell v. State (1905), 165 Ind. 443, 75 N. E. 884, 2 L. R. A. (N. S.) 251, 112 Am. St. 244, 6 Ann. Cas. 851; Boos v. State (1914), 181 Ind. 562, 105 N. E. 117; EwbanK, Indiana Criminal Law §285.
The judgment is reversed, with directions to sustain appellant's motion to quash the affidavit.