Lawerence v. State
Lawerence v. State
Opinion of the Court
The appellant was convicted of incest. The prosecutrix is his stepdaughter, Lucile Carter, a girl 15 years of age, according to the evidence. The parties are ne- . groes. The date of the offense is laid August 6,1918, and the prosecutrix testified that about that date appellant had intercourse with her. They were together in a wagon. She said that he told her to get straddle of a board. She told him she didn’t want to, and he hit her on the side of the head with his hand, and pulled her up between his legs and had intercourse with her. She testified also that on ■another occasion, two weeks later, they were in the field together, and he just threw her •'down, pulled up her dress, and had intercourse with her. A baby was born on the last day of the year 1918. The one witness testifying about the birth of the child was an old negro woman who claimed to have had experience in such matters. She expressed the opinion that it was a six-months child. She said it was well developed, parts regular • — face, eyes, nose, eyelashes, toenails, and finger nails — nothing wrong except that it was bloody on the top of the hand; said the finger nails were grown out, but not grown out right.
The errors pointed out require a reversal of the judgment, which is ordered.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- LAWERENCE v. STATE
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- Published