Bass v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for fornication. Before Judge Harris, City-court of Floyd county. November 3, 1897. The indictment against Louis Bass for illicit intercourse with Bessie Walker contained four counts, charging respectively fornication, adultery, adultery and fornication, and fornication and adultery, all alleged to have been committed on May 28,. 1897. Upon the indictment appear the names of J. M. Johnson, Abe Richardson and Robert Tripp as witnesses.
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Indictment for fornication. Before Judge Harris, City-court of Floyd county. November 3, 1897. The indictment against Louis Bass for illicit intercourse with Bessie Walker contained four counts, charging respectively fornication, adultery, adultery and fornication, and fornication and adultery, all alleged to have been committed on May 28,. 1897. Upon the indictment appear the names of J. M. Johnson, Abe Richardson and Robert Tripp as witnesses. For the State Abe Richardson testified, that about May 28, 1897, he saw Louis Bass and Bessie Walker, about 9 o’clock at night, on the sidewalk of…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
1. Where the State, in a trial for fornication, relies for a conviction upon proof showing that the accused, an *231unmarried man, and the other alleged guilty party, an unmarried woman, were, at a certain time and a designated place, in a position relative to each other which, taken in connection with other proven circumstances, strongly indicated that the act of sexual intercourse was taking place between them, evidence of former lascivious familiarities between the same parties, within a comparatively recent period, increases the probability that the offense charged was actually committed at…
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