Shelly v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Circuit Court of Hardin County, on a charge of incestuous intercourse with the daughter of his half-sister, and, upon the verdict of a jury, was sentenced by the Court to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of five years. He has appealed in error to this Court. The indictment was based upon § 5646, M. ■ & V. Code, viz,: “No man shall marry or have carnal knowledge of his mother, his father’s sister, his mother's sister, his sister, his daughter, the daughter of his brother or sister," etc. Section 5647 further…