Jacobs v. State

It is argued that the girl herself testified that she told the defendant that she was then 18 years of age and that this in and of itself is so weakening in character that her contrary testimony given during the trial that she was only 16 years old was reduced to such an unreliable and unworthy character that it fails thereby to meet the proof required by law. There is a circumstance, however, which cannot be left out of consideration in determining the cnaracter of the evidence before the court and the effect upon the mind of the trial court and that is that the girl herself was in the…