Chamberlain v. State

delivered ■the opinion of the court.

Upon the prosecution of a father for the ■statutory rape of his thirteen-year-old mi•nor child, the wife was permitted to testify .against her husband in rebuttal. A jury -convicted the defendant and he was sentenced to the penitentiary. The defendant .appeals, relying upon the single ground there was prejudicial error in admitting testimony of his wife.

In the State’s case in chief, the testimony ■of the child showed the defendant had criminally assaulted her on other occasions prior to the attack upon which the criminal complaint was based; on the night of…