Fields v. State

Appellant, a negro man, was convicted of the offense of miscegenation. That he is a negro, and that the woman with whom he is alleged to have committed the offense is a white person, is not disputed. It is not contended that the parties intermarried ; the evidence tends solely to show that the parties did “live in adultery or fornication with each other.”

In Jones v. State, 156 Ala. 175, 47 So. 100. 101, our Supreme Court had this to say: “With the exception of the racial feature, the constituent elements of the offense [miscegenation] are the same as in ordinary cases of adultery and…