State v. Coffey

Defendant was convicted of the crime of incest — sexual intercourse with his seventeen year old daughter — and has appealed. Counsel for appellant first contend that the facts are not sufficient to support a verdict of guilty of the crime charged.

The prosecutrix testified that appellant, her father, had had sexual relations with her almost continuously since the death of her mother in 1935, and that he had such relations with her on the morning of August 24, 1940, the date he is charged by the information with the commission of the crime in question. If there were no other evidence, or…