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Show uu A KISS ASSAULT AND BATTERY. To kiss a lady against her will is assault and battery in Arkansas. Tho matter has Just been ruled on in Its supremo court. Tho lady with a child in her arms, was walking by a footpath across the farm to visit her sister. The old family fam-ily physician, driving to sco a patient, met her at tho road gate. He alighted, alight-ed, bade her the "top o' th' morning," grasped her wrist and asked for a kiss, which was rightfully, womanly and in dignantly refused. Being in close proximity his bearded visage roughed hor fair face, the Infant begui to cry and she withdrew a few steps. The Tho doctor was nonplussed and sought to amend by offering to open tho gate, but there again he was rebuffed The court ruled that a former kissing kiss-ing experience with tho complainant prior to her marriage did not warrant the present presumption, and held tho doctor guilty of assault and battery. Capper's Weekly. oo |