158 Iowa 687 | Iowa | 1912
The defendant was indicted upon the charge of seducing one Lizzie Baetge, and in support of his appeal for a reversal of the judgment entered against him makes the following points:
4. Same : re-opening cause : further evidence. IV. The next point and the- one on which counsel most vigorously contend for a reversal has reference to a somewhat singular episode attending the submission of the case. It appeared in evidence that complaining witness gave birth to a child on August 29, 1910. According to her story, her pregnancy resulted from intercourse with defendant which occurred first on November 14, 1909, and was repeated at various times after that date. On the part of the defendant, it was claimed that on the evening of November 26, 1909, a date substantially nine months before the birth of her child, the complaining witness attended a "box social” at a local schoolhouse in company with another young man, one Brokaw, and that they went away from the schoolhouse together and alone. Their presence at the box social was testified to by several Avitnesses, as was the fact that about the same time BrokaAv had accompanied the girl to one or more other entertainments. To fix the date of this social, the school-teacher, Mrs. Hobson, having charge of the affair, was called as a Avitness and testified that it occurred on November 26, 1909, and
The judgment below is therefore Affirmed.