State v. Lee

A demurrer was sustained to an indictment charging appellee with incest with his adopted daughter. Exhibited with the indictment, and made a part of it, is the decree of the chancery court by which the female concerned was adopted by appellee in the full measure as allowed by Sec.-358, Code 1930, — tbe adopted child not being otherwise related to appellee either by affinity or consanguinity.

The question whether a man may be deemed guilty of incest with his adopted daughter has not heretofore been presented in any appellate court, so far as we can find. Whether there has never before been any…