Baker v. United States

In the district court for the county of Rock, the plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted of adultery.

The bill of exceptions presents the following facts: There was but one count in the indictment, charging but one act of carnal knowledge, on the 19th day of March, 1846. After proving that the defendant and one Lucinda Hollenbolt slept in the same bed together, in the month of September, 1844, the district attorney asked the witness whether he had seen the said defendant and the said Lucinda sleeping together during the winter following. To this question the defendant, by his counsel,…