Pace v. State

CARR, Judge.

Appellant, a married man, was indicted and convicted for seduction. Title 14, Sec. 419, Code 1940.

At the time of the claimed offense the alleged injured woman was seventeen years of age and had lived' a neighbor to defendant for six or seven years. According to the testimony of the prosecutrix, appellant on several occasions acknowledged his love for her and promised that he would secure a divorce, after which they would marry; and, being induced by this avowal, about August 1, 1942, she had sexual intercourse with the defendant. In December following she became aware of her…