Lightner v. State

The defendant was tried for a misdemeanor, there being two counts in the accusation, one charging him with fornication, and the other with adultery and fornication. Upon the'trial it appeared that the defendant, a white.man, traveling with his child, and a mulatto woman, whom he claimed to be his nurse,' spent nights at residences along the way. On two occasions the three slept in one room. On one of these occasions there were two beds, *564and both appeared the next morning to have been occupied. This was at the residence of a negro. On the other occasion there was-but one bed, while a pallet…