State v. Adams
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: M. G. Múnly, Judge. A. J. Adams was convicted of the seduction of Amelia Nobbs under a promise of marriage, contrary to the provisions of section 1863, Hill’s Code, and appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
*173Opinion by
Mr. Justice Bean.
Tbe evidence shows that the prosecutrix, who is about twenty-seven years of age, came to Portland in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, from Council Bluffs, in Iowa, where some two years before she had been acquainted with defendant and had kept company with him for a few months. In April or May after her arrival in Portland, she again met the defendant on several occasions at the home of a mutual friend, where she was accustomed to visit, and was frequently accompanied by him on her return after these visits to the place where she was working as a domestic.…
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