Bennett v. State

Pete Bennett was indicted, at the August term, 1897, of the superior court of Gordon county, for fornication with Martha Reynolds. The indictment charged that he was a single man and she a single woman at the time the offense is alleged to have been committed. Martha Reynolds, the only witness sworn, testified, in behalf of the State, that she *67was delivered of a bastard child a few months prior to the trial, and that Pete Bennett was its father; that he had sexual intercourse with her, in Gordon county, in May, 1896. There was no evidence that either of them was unmarried. The accused was…