State v. Poyner

The defendant was convicted of the crime of lewdly and viciously associating and cohabiting with a woman not his wife, and prosecutes this appeal from the final judgment of the court. The first error assigned is based on the admission of testimony tending to show the reputation for chastity of the woman with whom the appellant is alleged to have associated and cohabited, in the community in which she resided. The form of the question was: “Do you know the reputation for chastity, in Cle Elum, of Minnie Black?” The objection to this question is two-fold; first, because the inquiry was not…