O'Neal v. State

C. E. O’Neal, alias Pat O’Neal, was tried under an accusation charging him with adultery and fornication, and with living in a state of adultery and fornication with one Evie King, he being a married man and the said Evie King being a single woman. The jury found a general verdict of guilty. The defendant filed a motion for a new trial on the general grounds alone; and to the order overruling the motion he excepted.

According to the evidence for the State, Evie' King, a widow and a lewd woman, lived with her children about three miles away from the home of the defendant. He was a married man,…