People v. Bowles

Defendant was charged in an information with six counts of incest and statutory rape committed upon his minor daughter on three separate occasions. He pleaded not guilty as to all counts and, after a jury trial, was found guilty as charged. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was granted as to four counts occurring on January 3, 1958, and July 3, 1958, and denied as to the other two counts. An appeal was taken from the judgment of conviction as to the two remaining counts which were for incest and statutory rape alleged to have occurred on July 6, 1958.

The prosecutrix testified that when she…