Cook v. State

Mr. Justice YasYalkenburgb:

delivered the opinion of the court.

At the Fall Term of the Orange County Circuit Court in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the grand jury found an indictment against Franklin Cook, charging that on the first day of August, 1883, he did, with force and arms, at and in the county of Orange, “ commit the crime of fornication by then and there having carnal knowledge of the body of one Rachel Cook. The said Franklin Cook and the said Rachel Cook, each being then and there single and unmarried, and the said Franklin Cook and the said Rachel Cook not being then…