Young v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Desha Circuit Court; W. B. Sorrells, Judge; 1. The court erred in refusing to permit the defendant to introduce in evidence on cross-examination of the prosecutrix the photograph of the prosecutrix and when it was taken. The photograph was admissible in evidence to prove the age of the prosecutrix. 135 Ark. 350. 2. The record of the charge preferred in the magistrate’s court was admissible in evidence.
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Appeal from Desha Circuit Court; W. B. Sorrells, Judge; 1. The court erred in refusing to permit the defendant to introduce in evidence on cross-examination of the prosecutrix the photograph of the prosecutrix and when it was taken. The photograph was admissible in evidence to prove the age of the prosecutrix. 135 Ark. 350. 2. The record of the charge preferred in the magistrate’s court was admissible in evidence. Defendant should have been allowed to ask Mrs. White and show by her cross-examination that others than the defendant had been seen with and in the presence of the prosecutrix. 3.…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
Appellant stands convicted of the crime of carnal abuse, alleged to have been committed by having sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of sixteen years. According to the testimony, appellant and the prosecuting witness both resided in the town of McG-ehee, and became acquainted with each other and began to associate together about the latter part of February or the early part of March, 1918. Appellant was a practicing physician—an unmarried man—and the girl in question was, at the time she became acquainted with appellant, working in the office of another physician in the same…
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