Hart v. Walker

Plaintiff recovered a verdict and .judgment in an action of trespass, the charge in the declaration being that the defendant entered the bed in which plaintiff was sleeping, and then and there made an assault upon her, and with great force and violence, and against the opposition, resistance, and will of the iilaintiff, unlawfully had carnal knowledge of her, and did then and there beget her with child. The plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant as a domestic, and the plaintiff’s testimony tended to show that he entered the room that she occupied, in the night-time, and overpowered her,…