Commonwealth v. Dill

The defendants were indicted for adultery, and also for lewd and lascivious cohabitation, and were found guilty of the latter offence. Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 6. The case is here on exceptions. The first question is whether there was any evidence warranting a conviction of the defendant Dill. There was evidence tending to show the following facts. The defendant Higgins was engaged by Dill as his housekeeper, and had a son born after she had been with him in Welifleet about a year. Dill continued to keep her, and she had another child, born at Boston, during a temporary absence, in a house taken…