Comer v. State

The appellant was convicted of carnal abuse and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for three years. Ark. Stats., 1947, § 41-3406. This appeal puts in issue the sufficiency of the State’s evidence.

The information charges that Comer had carnal knowledge of his daughter Lorine, a girl under the age of sixteen. Lorine, as a witness for the prosecution, denied having had sexual relations with her father. She admitted that she had signed a statement to the contrary during the prosecuting attorney’s investigation of the case, but she declared that her former statement was untrue. The court…