State v. Hughes

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That some man had sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix about March 30, 1896, is put beyond dispute by the birth of a fully-developed child, December 18th of the same year. As to whether the defendant is that man, the evidence is in conflict, she affirming and he denying. Her previous chastity is not questioned, nor is the'fact that she was then unmarried. But the defendant insists the evidence utterly fails to show that intercourse, if had, was procured through artifice, flattery, or deception. That he paid his attentions to the prosecutrix, by taking her to church several times, to a…