Kennedy v. State

The defendant was convicted of the offense of bastardy, and excepts to the judgment overruling his motion for new trial. According to the evidence of the prosecutrix, the defendant, who was her' cousin, came to her father’s house on the 9th of April, 1909, while her father and mother were at court at Reidsville, and while she was engaged in her housework, caught hold of her, threw her down, and had sexual intercourse with her. She testified that no other man had carnal knowledge of her person, and that the defendant was, of course, the father of the child. The mother and the father of the…