DeGroat v. People

The plaintiff in error, on what seems to US a most improbable story told under oath by his daughter, a child under the age of ten, was convicted of having committed the crime of incest with her. We cannot .review the conviction upon the facts, but the question whether in law the crime of incest was possible under the circumstances is made by the record, and requires determination.

By statute of this State it is provided that “If any person shall ravish and carnally know any female of the age of ten years or more, by force and against her -will, or shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse…