State v. Parris

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice Brease.

The appellant was convicted in the Court of general sessions for Spartanburg County of the crime of incest; the female concerned being his own daughter, seventeen years of age. His Honor, Circuit Judge Ramage, sentenced him to confinement in the State penitentiary for seven years.

There are eight exceptions in the appeal to this Court, revolving mainly around one incident occurring in the lower Court. Without detailing the exceptions, deeming it unnecessary to do so, we consider all of them together.

The facts gathered from the…