Bolen v. People

Plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted of the crime of incest, in having illicit intercourse with his own daughter, a girl fifteen years of age. The evidence shows the arrest of the defendant was made on the same day the prosecutrix alleges the offense was committed. The evidence is conflicting, the prosecutrix swearing to the commission of the act and the defendant denying it. Some additional evidence was heard, and the jury found the defendant guilty, and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary under the Indeterminate Sentence act. The defendant sues out this writ of…