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In the Matter of M

2 Cited authorities

  1. State v. Wyman

    173 A. 155 (Conn. 1934)   Cited 12 times

    The statute making it a criminal offense to carnally know any female under the age of forty-five who is epileptic, imbecile, feeble-minded or a pauper has a broader purpose than the protection of the individual, viz.: the protection of the public and the community against the danger of increasing the number of mental defectives in our population. The defendant claimed that by itself the results of an intelligence test, which the State put in evidence, were not sufficient to establish feeble-mindedness

  2. People v. Palvino

    216 App. Div. 319 (N.Y. App. Div. 1926)   Cited 2 times
    In Palvino the woman with whom the defendant had engaged in sexual intercourse was an escapee from a State institution for epileptics and feebleminded to which she had been committed; her mental age was seven years and two months.