McAllister v. State

The defendant, John McAllister, was indicted and-convicted for the offense of adultery and fornication, and excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The only question presented by the record is whether the verdict is contrary to law, in that the evidence is insufficient to support it. This court is especially reluctant to interfere with the verdict of a jury, and for that reason we have carefully scrutinized the record to ascertain if in any view of the case the verdict can be supported by law. The evidence for the State, in brief, was that one witness saw the defendant…