State v. Morgan

By an information filed in the superior court, the defendant was charged with the crime of, carnally knowing his step-daughter, sixteen years of age. The jury found him guilty. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was granted upon the grounds, as stated in the order, that error was committed in admitting testimony too remote of prior improper sexual relations between the defendant and his stepdaughter, and also in admitting evidence that the defendant had been informed against in another state for such prior improper relations and discharged after hearing. From the order granting a new trial,…