Baker v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, first district, Chickasaw county. JIon. Eugene O. Sykes, Judge. Appellant, Baker, was indicted for committing a rape upon one Adeline Baker, his stepdaughter, was convicted and appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of, first district, Chickasaw county. JIon. Eugene O. Sykes, Judge. Appellant, Baker, was indicted for committing a rape upon one Adeline Baker, his stepdaughter, was convicted and appealed to the supreme court. On the trial, Adeline, the prosecutrix, testified that she was the stepdaughter of appellant, and was the mother of three children by him, the oldest being seven years old; that, about eight or nine years before, she had intercourse with appellant in the woods; that he was squirrel hunting, and proposed to have intercourse with her, which she refused; that he…
1Opinion of the Court
Wiiiteield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It was error to allow prosecutrix to be asked as to her relations with other men. The only possible purpose of it was to bolster up her general reputation as to chastity, when that was not in issue at any time during the trial. The defendant did not assail it. That is settled in the two following cases: *88Madden v. State, 65 Miss., 176; 3 South., 328; Williams v. State, 79 Miss., 555; 31 South., 197. Without specializing, we may say, generally, that, whilst it was competent to show the treatment of the prosecutrix and of her mother, for the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Williams v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1901
- Madden v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1887
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