State v. Dorathy

The respondent was tried and convicted, on an indictment under Sec. 6 of Chapter 135, R. S., for taking indecent liberties with a female person under the age of sixteen years.

During the trial, the prosecutrix, in cross-examination, was asked whether, at about the time when respondent is charged with having committed the offense set out in the indictment, she did something naughty with a boy of the village; and whether she had told her mother anything about him. On objection the court excluded these questions, and exception was noted.

The record then shows the following:

• Q. “Do you know a boy…