State v. . Austin

Claek, J.:

The defendants were indicted for'fornication and adultery.

Exception 1. — One Helms, a witness for the State, testified that he met the male defendant one night about two hundred yards from the female defendant’s house, going in the direction of her house, and defendant told him he was going to Coleman Stewart’s to meet Elliott (an Alliance lecturer), and when this .matter was tried before the Alliance the defendant denied telling him so and denied meeting him. To this defendant objected. There was evidence by many witnesses of the defendant Austin making nocturnal visits to the…