Cooper v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Judge.

Appellant, Eugene Cooper, was convicted in the Fayette Circuit Court of incest and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

The prosecuting witness, Marie Cooper, age sixteen, was born during the marriage of appellant to a former wife. She lived with appellant in Lexington on two occasions of about six months each, the first time in 1951 or 1952, and the second in 1962. She testified that appellant is her father and that he had sexual relations with her at their home. The appellant denied that the girl is his child. He testified that his former wife, while carrying the child, had…