State v. Miller

Brannon, Judge:

Charles H. Miller and Susan Hatton, having been convicted in the Circuit Court of Lincoln on an indictment for lewd and lascivious cohabitation, appeal the ease here.

No evidence was given but that of the state. Miller •owned land, and was engaged in the work of clearing it, employing a number of hands; and he employed Susan *216Iiatton, wbo bad been living in that neighborhood, and other girls, to do housework and cook for the hands, paying her fixed pay. She came there in February, and in September gave birth to a child. There was a small cabin of one room in which all who did…