King v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Sevier Circuit Court; Jeff T. Coivling, Judge; Tbe action of tbe trial court in refusing to require tbe prosecuting witness to answer the question whether or not she had ever had intercourse with any other man than the defendant, was correct.
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Appeal from Sevier Circuit Court; Jeff T. Coivling, Judge; Tbe action of tbe trial court in refusing to require tbe prosecuting witness to answer the question whether or not she had ever had intercourse with any other man than the defendant, was correct. In a prosecution for carnal abuse the chastity of the prosecuting witness is not in issue, but if it were so, it would be improper to require her to testify to matters that would tend to incriminate or disgrace her. 15 Ark. 624; 93 Ark. 260.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The defendant, who was a boy just past sixteen years of age, was indicted and convicted for the offense of carnally knowing one Esther Smith, a female under the age of sixteen years, and was given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary upon the verdict of the jury assessing his punishment at imprisonment for that time.
The appellant has not favored us with a brief, but the case has been fully abstracted by the Attorney General and the motion for a new trial set out in full in his brief. Three of the grounds for a new trial relate to the sufficiency of the evidence, but we think there was…
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