State v. Markins

The indictment charges the appellees with having committed the crime of incest on the 6th day of March, 1882, and the State introduced evidence of incestuous intercourse on that day. After the intz’oduction of this evidence the State offered to prove that prior to that time acts -of indecent familiarity took place between the appellees, and ■that they had been guilty of sexual intercourse. At the time this evidence was offei’ed, the prosecuting attorney stated to the court that the puz’posein offering it was not to pi'ove distinct and substantive offences, but to prove lascivious and improper…