Baumer v. State

This was a prosecution against the appellant for incest. The charge in the indictment is as follows:

“ The grand jurors for said State of Indiana impanelled, charged and sworn in the Wayne Circuit Court to inquire within and for the body of the same said county of Wayne, upon their oath charge and present that Arthur Baumer, late of said county, at said county, on the 30th day of May, A. D. 1874, did then and there unlawfully have sexual intercourse with his step-mother, Augusta Baumer, then and there knowing the said Augusta Baumer to be his step-mother, contrary to the form of the statute in…