Doles v. State

This is -an appeal from a judgment of the Sebastian Circuit Court, Fort Smith District, sentencing the appellant to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of one year, on conviction of the crime -of carnal abuse. The prosecutrix was Bernice Montgomery.

It was an issue .before the jury as to whether or not the prosecutrix was under sixteen years of age at the .time of the .alleged sexual intercourse. On this issue the court, oyer the objection of appellant, permitted the State to prove that, in a divorce proceeding in the Sebastian -Chancery Court in which the mother of the…