Case ID: ga-app_9/html/0818-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3504.
    Connell v. The State.
    
    Decided October 10, 1911.
    Indictment for adultery and fornication; from Haralson superior .court — Judge Edwards. May 10, 1911.
    
      Robinson & Edwards, W. W. Mundy, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. R. Hutcheson, solicitor-general, E. 8. Ault, Griffith & Matthews, contra.
   Powell, J.

1. In a prosecution against a man for fornication or adultery, testimony that the female with whom the intercourse is alleged to have taken place had intercourse with another man is immaterial, even though the female herself is a witness for the State.

2. A female witness can not be impeached by proof of specific acts of illicit intercourse. ' Judgment affirmed.