Cox v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Ratliff

— Reversing.

The appellant, Harvey Cox, and the prosecuting witness, Mrs. Grace Cox Humphreys, were formerly husband and wife and two children were born to their marriage, a boy and a girl. At the time of the trial of this case, the boy was eight years old and the girl six years old. Appellant and the prosecutrix separated when the girl child was about one.year old and after the. separation the boy was placed in the home of G. W. Cox, the father of the appellant, and the appellant also returned to his father’s home and lived with his father and…