State v. Walke

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Cunningham, J. :

Appellant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape, and appeals. The testimony of the prosecuting witness, that conception followed defendant’s connection with her, and that she was delivered of a child at about the time such an event might have been expected, and of an attending physician, that he was present and assisted at such delivery, was admitted over the objection of the de*184fendant that the same was incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial. The court admitted it for the purpose of showing penetration. This was not error. It…