Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Polk County. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Carter, J.:
In the Circuit Court of Polk county, on October 12, 1899, an indictment was found, charging that plaintiff in error and Osceola Gaffney, nee Brown, in said county on September 1st, 1898, “being and knowing themselves to be persons forbidden to intermarry, by. *186reason that the said Isaac Brown was the father of the said Osceola Gaffney, nee Brown, did then and there unlawfully, feloniously and incestuously have carnal knowledge, each of the body of the other, contrary,” etc. On October 13, 1899, upon motion of the State a severance was granted, and upon being arraigned plaintiff in…
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