# State v. Bowden

> Supreme Court of Florida · June 16, 1944 · 154 Fla. 511

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3378593

## Case

- **Full name:** State of Florida v. Rubin Bowden
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Florida
- **Decided:** June 16, 1944
- **Citations:** 154 Fla. 511; 18 So. 2d 478; 1944 Fla. LEXIS 748
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Thomas
- **Judges:** Sebring, Buford, Terrell, Brown, Chapman, Adams, Thomas
- **Cited by:** 43 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3378593

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that “penetration of the female private parts by the private male organ” is an essential element of “carnal intercourse with an unmarried female of previous chaste character under the age of eighteen years”

## Opinion text

THOMAS,
concurring specially:
I concur in the conclusion that the appellee be tried on the information,'but only for the offense of “assault with intent to have sexual intercourse with an unmarried female under eighteen years of age of previous chaste character.” Bowden v. State (Fla.) 12 So. 2d 887 .

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