State v. Doty

The appellant was convicted of giving her husband, who had committed the offense of rape, aid, with the intent and in order that he might escape arrest, conviction and punishment. Charles Doty and Almira were husband and wife, and Nannie Williams was the daughter of Almira by a former husband ; and they lived together as a family in Oxford, Sumner County. Nannie was 16 years old on February 4, 1896, and it appears that Doty had been having sexual intercourse with her for about three years before that time. On June 10, 1896, she gave birth to a child, which lived but a few hours. Two days…