State v. Bartlett

The assault alleged is charged to have been committed upon the person of Bertha Bartlett, a female child under the age of fifteen years. It appears in evidence that the prosecutrix is the daughter of the defendant. It is her testimony that her mother was away from home at the time; that she (prosecutrix) had taken her little brother and sister, four and six years old, respectively, to bed with her, in a downstairs room, and that her brother Walter, twelve years of age, had gone to bed upon a couch in a dining room adjoining; that the defendant, who slept in an upstairs room, came down in the…