Williams v. State

ELIJAH. WILLIAMS was convicted of incest, in the Adams Circuit Court, upon the following charge in an indictment.

W. March, for the plaintiff. D. Wallace, for the defendant.

“ Elijah Williams, late of said county, on the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and. forty-nine, at the county of Adams aforesaid, unlawfully did have sexual intercourse with his daughter, Elizabeth Williams, the said Elizabeth then and there knowing that she, the said Elizabeth, was his, the said Elijah’s, daughter,” &c.

The indictment is claimed to be predicated upon section 42 of…