Jennings v. State

The accused was convicted of incestuous adultery with his stepdaughter. The evidence was substantially as follows: The girl was 17 or 18 years of age and had been living in the house with her mother and the accused ever since the marriage of the accused to the mother some 14 or 15 years before. Upon being informed by the mother that the girl had missed her menstrual period, the accused called upon a negro midwife, who at the time was living eight miles away from his home, and requested the woman to do something to relieve the girl, stating at the time that she had caught cold and was…