That's a riot!! It's always funny when you find a case that is totally bizarre or if the language is totally outside of what you would expect in a judicial decision of a high appellate court. Some of us would collect odd ball cases in law school to ease the tension and cut the boredom of reading thousands of pages.
I remember one time someone told me to go to the SW reporter section of the law library and look for a book. She wouldn't tell me the cite, but that I would know it when I see it. I thought it was a strange request. In the midst of all the pristine, almost never touched volumes, that was a beaten and dog eared volume that smelled and had pages torn. I think it was 12 SW2d but that's too many years ago to really remember.
Taking it from the shelf, it opened right to a case that obviously had been read by thousands of law students before me.
It was the story of a 70++ year old man accused of having consensual sex with 2 underage girls. The defense, which used poetic and very flowery language, essentially was based upon the theory that there can be no assault without a functioning weapon. In any event, the judge's decision, in obviously a difficult case for him to write, was poetic, humorous, graphic and, to young law students, rather titilating, for lack of a better word.
Shows how times have changed. Today, no law book volumes, just websites, and if one is looking for excitement, it's not in the catacombs of a law library. Of course, back in those days, grade school kids got excited by reading National Geographics in school. |
