Judgment reversed on the law and the facts, and a new trial ordered.
In our opinion it was error to admit, over objection, testimony by appellant's 15-year-old daughter, with whom he was accused of committing an act of sexual intercourse, that about three weeks thereafter she had made disclosure of the facts to a priest in confession. Such evidence is admissible in prosecutions for rape and similar charges involving sexual intercourse with violence, or irrespective...
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