State v. Wood

The defendant makes these assertions by his assignments of error:

1. That the court erred in refusing to dismiss the prosecution upon a compulsory nonsuit. G.S. 15-173.

2. That the court erred in instructing the jury that a reasonable doubt may arise “out of the evidence or the insufficiency of the evidence in the case.”

A father violates G.S. 14-178 and by reason thereof is guilty of the statutory felony of incest if he has sexual intercourse, either habitual or in a single instance, with a woman or girl whom he knows to be his daughter in fact, regardless of whether she is his legitimate or…