State v. Key

The evidence made out a case for the jury. Motions for a directed verdict were properly denied. The evidence of the mother of the prosecuting witness was admissible for purpose of corroboration.

The defendant’s assignment of error No. 10 involves the following part of the court’s charge:

“If you find from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt that Robert Key had sexual intercourse with this girl, . . . about the first of November, or thereabouts, and within a reasonable period of gestation, that is, within approximately seven, eight, or nine months and nine and a half or ten months prior…