State v. Moss

The appellant, a young man twenty-three years of age, was convicted of the crime of adultery with Florence Cornwell, a woman thirty-five years old and wife of one E. H. Cornwell. The information charged the commission of the offense on November 30, 1911, in Benton county, Washington. The appellant was a school teacher in charge of the school at White Bluffs, a small, unincorporated community in Benton county. He boarded with the Cornwells, and slept in a tent near their home. There was evidence tending to prove four separate and distinct commissions of the offense. The prosecuting witness, E.…