Postelwait v. State

Two children, Charles Postelwait, a boy 17 years of age, and Yera Coursey, a girl 15 years old, eloped and were secretly married. For several months they lived together in domestic harmony with the parents of the husband. After this they left the parental roof and moved to an unoccupied farm belonging to the husband’s father. In the course of a few days discord arose between the defendant and his wife, growing out of the discovery that the wife was pregnant. The wife went to her mother, who immediately, in company with the father, took her back to her husband. The husband then refused to…