State v. Heft
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buchanan District Court. — Hon. P. C. Platt, Judge. Under an indictment for incest alleged to have been committed by having camal intercourse with his daughter, the defendant was tried and convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. Prom this conviction the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
The prosecuting witness testified that at various times and repeatedly from the year 1905 until 1909, in which year this indictment was found, the defendant, her father, had sexual intercourse with her, and that this intercourse resulted in the birth of a child. As to two or three of these acts of- intercourse, the testimony of the *24prosecutrix was corroborated by that of her younger sister, and the prosecution, on being required to elect, relied upon an act committed, according to the testimony of prosecutrix, on the 24th day' of December, 1908, when -she was past seventeen years of age. As…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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