Blount v. State

— The plaintiff in Error, R. A. Blount, is a negro preacher about thirty-seven years of age. In 1930, about the month of February, he began having carnal intercourse with the thirteen year old daughter of one of his parishioners. The illicit relation continued for some time until the girl became pregnant.

On the 12th day of August, 1930, the mother of the girl made an affidavit against Blount charging him with having “carnal intercourse with an unmarried female under the age of eighteen years, to-wit, Laura Maultsby, of the age of fifteen years.” Upon this affidavit a warrant was issued and…