Supreme Court of Iowa March 19, 1886 (State v. Briggs)

Reed J.

The indictment on which the defendant was tried, omitting the portions which are merely formal, is as follows: “The said Samuel W. Briggs did, on the sixteenth day of March, 1884, and on divers other days and times *418'witliin eighteen months prior to the finding of this indictment, in the county aforesaid, commit the crime of adultery, by then and there having carnal knowledge of one