Hobday

Appellant was convicted by a jury of the crime of incest alleged to have been committed upon the person of his fourteen year old daughter. Subsequent to the verdict a motion for a new trial was made and denied. From the judgment thereafter entered and the order denying a new trial this appeal is presented.

The sole ground urged is that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict. We find no merit in the appeal. The law has remained unchanged for many years to the effect that there need be no corroboration oí the victim’s testimony in cases of this character. All of the argument here made no doubt was made to the trial jury and in spite thereof a verdict of guilty was returned. To detail the facts would merely perpetuate a sordid story of lust and degeneracy. Suffice it to say that every element of the crime charged was proved by testimony the jury evidently believed.

Summing up the argument of appellant, he urges that the outrage of a child by a parent is a thing in itself so inherently improbable and revolting to the normal human that every intendment should be against the verdict. Such never has been the law. In all cases where a defendant is charged with the…