State v. Hesterly

At the January term, 1903, of the Howell Circuit Court, the prosecuting attorney of said county filed against appellant his information consisting of two counts; the first charging him with carnally knowing one Anna Byers, an unmarried female of the age of sixteen years, of previous chaste character, and the second count charging him with defiling the said Anna Byers while she was confided to the care and custody of appellant as a pupil in- the school of which appellant was the teacher.

The cause coming on for trial on the 24th day of March, 1903, before Hon. Argus Cox, judge of. the…