Chastain v. State

Deen, Judge.

1. On the trial of the defendant for incest with his daughter, the latter in her sworn testimony denied ever having had sexual relations with her father. The State then pleaded entrapment and read to the witness over objection .of the defendant a sworn statement given by her to city police officers investigating the case in which she admitted the act, for purposes of impeachment. “Where the solicitor-general has been entrapped by a witness who had made a written statement to a police officer investigating the crime, different from his sworn statement and prejudicial to the case…