People v. Ayers

Respondent was charged with statutory rape, alleged to have been committed on April 27, 1911, in Penn township, Cass county, upon one Mabel Bowerman, a female child under the age of 16 years. Upon the first trial of the case it appeared that said Mabel Bowerman gave birth to an illegitimate child on January 22, 1912, and she testified that respondent was the father of this child, as the result of sexual intercourse with her which occurred “on the Underwood Farm in the house,” where she was a member of the family of respondent, and had been for a num*367ber of years, although not legally adopted.…