State v. Stevens

Ladd, J.—

The defendant is accused of having had sexual intercourse with Myrtle Kasler, a child under ten years of age, in the night of September '29, 1905. She was occupying a bed with two younger sisters on one side of a room, and defendant’s bed was on the other side. The kitchen was the next room, and the room beyond that was occupied by the child’s mother. Her father was temporarily absent, and her two brothers — the oldest being eleven years of age — appear to have slept in the kitchen. The doors between the rooms were open, but the outside doors were locked, and there was no one else in…