State v. Miles

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jackson, J.:

The appellant was convicted of statutory rape. The object of appellant’s attention was his own stepdaughter, thirteen years of age. It is conceded that Wesley Cooper Miles, Sr., normally slept with his wife Julia Ann and also with Dora Charlene Ogle, his wife’s daughter.

Dora testified that on the morning of July 28, 1961, she was occupying the bed with only her stepfather and that both were nude. That she had sexual intercourse with her stepfather on the bed and that her mother had been present at the time the act was done.

It is true that…