State v. Crowder

— This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict of guilty of the crime of carnally knowing a female child under the age of eighteen years.

*451While a number of assignments of- error are made, those chiefly argued and relied upon may be grouped under two heads, and we will confine ourselves to the two questions thus presented.

It is conceded that, in cases of this character, the prosecuting witness may testify to acts of intercourse other than, and prior in time of occurrence to, the one upon which the defendant is being tried, as, showing the relations of the parties, and tending to…