Webb v. State

The defendant was charged with and convicted of seduction “by persuasion and promises of marriage;” his motion for a new trial was overruled; and on this judgment he assigns error.

1. The 4th ground of the motion for a new trial (first special ground) quotes an excerpt from the charge of the court in reference to seduction by promises of marriage or by any other false and fraudulent means that, might have been used in connection with the promise of marriage, and alleges that the same was error *184“because it was confusing and misleading to the jury, and left in the minds of the jury the idea that…