People v. Hendrickson

The defendant was charged with the crime -of adultery committed with one Yarnella Smith on the 21st day of August, 1883, was tried at the Berrien circuit, and -convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. A large number of exceptions were taken on the trial to the rulings and charge of the court, upon twenty-nine of which the defendant assigned error; in disposing of thé case, however, but few of them need be considered.

On the trial the prosecuting attorney was permitted to make proof of acts of familiarity and intimacy between the defendant and Mrs. Smith, which occurred over two…