State v. Fairbanks

This cause has been in this Court once before and comes here again on exceptions by respondent, following a second trial and second conviction of the crime of adultery, of which the respondent is charged with having committed with one Irma Stoodley, she being an unmarried woman and the respondent being a married man.

The first exception relied upon relates to the exclusion of a question put to Irma Stoodley, the complaining witness, in cross-examination by respondent’s counsel. The State’s evidence tended to show at least twelve specific instances of sexual intercourse between this witness and…