125 Wis. 650 | Wis. | 1905
The plaintiff in error was convicted of a crime against nature under sec. 4591, Stats. 1898, committed by inducing a boy seven years of age to insert his male organ in the mouth of the plaintiff in error. Upon writ of error he claims that as the boy was incapable of penetration in the sense in which that word is used in rape, and incapable of emission, there was no crime under sec. 4591, but only an indecent assault under sec. 4591a, Stats. 1898.
We are unwilling to soil the pages of our Reports with lengthened discussion of the loathsome subject. There is sufficient authority to sustain a conviction in such a case, and, if there were none, we would feel no hesitancy in placing an authority upon the books. Reg. v. Allen, 1 Den. C. C. 364; Kelly v. People, 192 Ill. 119, 61 N. E. 425.
It is said that the boy was an accomplice, and that no con
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.