Chatman v. State

1. The defendant was convicted of the offense of adultery and fornication, and she excepts to the judgment overruling her motion for new trial. Upon the trial one witness testified that he had on two different occasions seen the defendant and one J. T. Levens in the very act of adultery. He was specific as to the charge in each case, and minute in each detail of these two transactions. Both acts were within the two years prior to the indictment, and would have authorized conviction. No attempt was made to impeach this witness otherwise than by disproving his statement by evidence of an alibi.…