Miller v. State

This record discloses one of the saddest and most mournful tragedies that have ever fállen under our observation. *600An aged father, who was educating at a religious school an only daughter, the idol of his old age, was shocked by the discovery that she had been ruined.* She was less than seventeen years of age. To add to the horror of the situation disclosed to the parent’s consciousness was the fact that the debauching of his daughter had been frequently carried on under his own roof, and that her bedroom, which he had believed to be a retreat of innocence, was a den of pollution whose very…