What is the test for proof of incest?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Krawchuk, 1988 CanLII 7208 (MB CA):
Among other cases referred to is State v. Nash, 272 S.W. 2d 179 (No. 1954) where a Missouri court in a case of incest with a daughter permitted proof of incest with another daughter "as showing a proclivity ... to satisfy ... lust upon the body of a daughter".
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