Dallas v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of the charge of having carnal intercourse with an unmarried female under the age of eighteen years of previous chaste character.

The last assignment of error, based upon the court’s denial of the defendant’s motion for a new trial, raises the question of the sufficiency of the testimony to support the verdict. It was established that she was unmarried. *360The woman testified to the carnal intercourse, and her mother testified that the defendant admitted it. All this the defendant denied. The testimony as to her age was not very clear, but as the jury were…