Supreme Court of North Carolina January 27, 1937 (State v. . Jackson)

Stacy, C. J.

The prosecuting witness is a negro girl nine years of age; the defendant, a negro preacher. The testimony of the prosecutrix in support of the offense charged is positive and direct; that of the defendant in denial, equally positive and direct. The trial of the cause

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resolved itself into a controverted issue of fact, determinable alone by tbe jury.