Smothers v. State

Melvin P. Smothers was convicted of the crime of incest in the district court for Boyd county, and prosecuted error to this court. A number of errors are assigned in the admission of evidence, and in the giving and refusing of instructions, but the assignment upon which most stress is laid is that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the conviction. It was charged in the information that the criminal act was committed upon the 18th day of March, 1906, and at divers times between that date and September 24, 1906. Evidence was admitted by the court tending to prove that certain acts of…