State v. Hamilton

*462The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

Appellant was charged with the crime of statutory rape upon the person of Clara Hamilton, a child fifteen years of age: At the June term, 1905, of the district court of Thomas county he was convicted, and appeals.

The prosecuting witness is his own daughter. She swore to the complaint, but upon the trial when first called as a witness denied the truth of her former statements and asserted that the appellant was not guilty. The trial court permitted the attorney for the state to cross-examine her at great length, and upon her persisting in the…