Cowser v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of incest with a penalty of four years in the penitentiary.

As stated by appellant’s able attorney, there are but few questions to be decided in this ease. The evidence of appellant’s guilt is clearly sufficient to sustain the verdict.

After the State had introduced its proof clearly making out the case against appellant, in order to defeat the State’s case and. show that he was not legally married to the mother of the complaining witness and thereby show that she, in law, was not his stepdaughter, he introduced a properly certified copy of a marriage…