Signs v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Woods county on a charge of incest and sentenced to serve a term of eight years in the state penitentiary.

The record discloses that defendant, a married man, lived at a section house on the branch line of the Santa Fe railroad near Fair Valley, in Woods county, and worked as a section hand. His wife was an inmate of an insane asylum; the prosecuting witness was his daughter who, at the time, was of the age of 13 years. The charge is based on section 1866, Comp. Stat. 1921, which reads:

“Persons who,…