Battles v. State

At a former day of this term this case was affirmed, from which opinion Judge Davidson entered his dissent. As some of the questions involved in a decision of this case are questions upon which this court has three lines of decisions, we have taken time enough to carefully investigate and mature an opinion in this character of case. For the last few years the opinions of this court in incest and rape (under age) cases have been so uncertain that no one could tell what the opinion of the court would be upon the admissibility of a certain character of testimony until the opinion was handed…