Mathews v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for adultery and fornication. Before Judge Felton. Crawford superior court. March term, 1897. The accused was ordinary of Crawford county. During 1896 he boarded at the house of Eubanks, and spent a while there every morning and every day after dinner. Eubanks’s daughter Charlotte, a girl of sixteen years, did defendant’s writing. One morning in July, after breakfast, in the absence of all the others of the family, he had carnal knowledge of Charlotte Eubanks.
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Indictment for adultery and fornication. Before Judge Felton. Crawford superior court. March term, 1897. The accused was ordinary of Crawford county. During 1896 he boarded at the house of Eubanks, and spent a while there every morning and every day after dinner. Eubanks’s daughter Charlotte, a girl of sixteen years, did defendant’s writing. One morning in July, after breakfast, in the absence of all the others of the family, he had carnal knowledge of Charlotte Eubanks. She testified that he forced her to consent to it; he got hold of her and made her consent. It was upon his lounge, he…
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
Mathews was indicted for the offense of fornication and adultery, and convicted. The facts are set out fully in the official report. It is contended by the accused that under these facts the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence; that if any crime was committed, according to the testimony, it was rape, and not fornication and adultery. The evidence, in brief, shows that Mathews had employed a girl as his clerk; that she did work for him at her father’s house; that he boarded there; that one morning after breakfast, while her father and mother were absent, he and the girl were together…
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