Legal Status of Women in IowaWilson, Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley)
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Legal Status of Women in Iowa
Wilson, Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley)
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Iowa
If, before judgment upon an indictment, the defendant marry the woman
thus seduced, it is a bar to any further prosecution for the offense.
[§5167.] An offer, by the defendant, to marry the woman, will not be a
bar to a prosecution for seduction, as nothing but actual marriage will
constitute such bar.
[Sidenote: Adultery.]
Every person who commits the crime of adultery shall be punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than three years, or by a fine
not exceeding three hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail
not exceeding one year; and when the crime is committed between parties,
only one of whom is married, both are guilty of adultery and shall be
punished accordingly. No prosecution for adultery can be commenced but
on complaint of the husband or wife. [§5317.]
[Sidenote: Evidence in cases of rape or seduction.]
The defendant in a prosecution for a rape, or for an assault with intent
to commit a rape, or for enticing or taking away an unmarried female of
previously chaste character, for the purpose of prostitution, or aiding
or assisting therein, or for seducing or debauching any unmarried woman
of previously chaste character, cannot be convicted upon the testimony
of the person injured, unless she be corroborated by other evidence
tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense.
[§5958, as amended by act of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly.] The
corroboration required by this section need not be by evidence of
witnesses to the act, but may be wholly by circumstances and facts which
tend to connect the accused with the commission of the crime.
[Sidenote: Bigamy.]
If any person who has a former husband or wife living, marry another
person, or continue to cohabit with such second husband or wife in this
state, he or she, except in cases mentioned in the following section, is
guilty of bigamy, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the
penitentiary not more than five years, or by fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail not more than one
year. [§5318.]
[Sidenote: Exceptions.]
The provisions of the preceding section do not extend to any person
whose husband or wife has continuously remained beyond seas, or who has
voluntarily withdrawn from the other and remained absent for the space
of three years together, the party marrying again, not knowing the other
to be living within that time; nor to any person who has been legally
divorced from the bonds of matrimony. [§5319.]
[Sidenote: Knowingly marrying husband or wife.]
Every unmarried person who knowingly marries the husband or wife of
another, when such husband or wife is guilty of bigamy thereby, shall be
imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding three years, or by fine of
not more than three hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail
not exceeding one year. [§5320.]
[Sidenote: Lewdness.]
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