State v. Foust

*172HALL, Justice:

Defendant appeals from a conviction of incest in violation of U.C.A., 1953, 76-7-102.

Defendant is the stepfather of the 16-year old prosecutrix who expressed desire to attend her high school’s girls’ preference Christmas dance. On asking her mother if she could attend, she was told to ask defendant who had legally adopted the prose-cutrix some eight years earlier. The daughter alleges that she asked defendant’s permission while they were home alone in the kitchen washing dishes. She claims defendant asked “how bad she wanted to go,” then began fondling her breasts and inquired…