George Tremain

George Lee Tremain (April 6, 1874 – February 8, 1948) was an American lawyer, politician, and Judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 1, 1935, to December 31, 1940.

Biography Early life and education Tremain was born in Hartsville, Indiana, to John W. Tremain (a Decatur County commissioner) and Eliza E. Tremain (née Jones). George Tremain's brother, Milton A. Tremain, became a physician.

In 1894, Tremain began attending Central Normal College in Danville (now known as Canterbury College). From 1894 to 1898, he left Central Normal College to teach school. In 1898, he re-entered Central Normal College. In 1899, he began attending Indiana Law School in Indianapolis (now known as Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law), graduating in 1900.

Tremain wrote the court's opinion in the 1940 case, Sanders v. State, involving the conviction of a man under Indiana's sodomy law despite the limitation on character witnesses at the man's trial. Tremain wrote in his opinion, "[The sodomy law] gives no other definition of the crime, obviously out of regard to the better sentiments of decent humanity, and to leave the record undefiled by details. The court has read the evidence in the record, and for the same reasons which influenced the framers of the statute, refuses to defile the reports by a recital of the sordid, immoral, depraved, and detestable statements therein contained."

Tremain left the court in 1940, succeeded by Justice Frank Richman. After leaving the court, Tremain resumed his private practice of law in Greensburg. Tremain was a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, serving on the organization's Board of Managers. He was also a member of the American Bar Association.

Personal life and death In 1910, Tremain married Mary Littell. In 1907, Littell helped organize the local Omega chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa, which engaged in charitable work around Greensburg. Littell became the chapter's first president.

Tremain died in Greensburg in 1948.