Lovell v. State

This was a prosecution for incest. The indictment charges that the defendant, on the 10th of December, 1856, at Hendricks county, did, then and there, have sexual intercourse with one'Sarah E. Curtis, his stepdaughter, he, defendant, then and there well knowing, &c. Plea, not guilty. Verdict for the state, upon which the Court, having refused a new trial, rendered judgment, &e.

The record contains a bill of exceptions, which shows that upon the trial Sarah E. Curtis was produced, and testified that on the first of December, 1856, she was engaged^ in weaving, when the defendant, her…