Durrence v. State

1. The prosecutrix testified that she and the accused were “engaged to marry” when he first had sexual intercourse with her, and had been engaged for some time before it occurred, and that she yielded to him because she “loved him and he promised to marry” her. There being, according to this testimoney, a bona fide existing and virtuous engagement to marry, the jury were authorized to infer that the illicit intercourse was not a purely meretricious transaction, notwithstanding the further testimony of the prosecutrix that “He told me he would marry me if I got into any trouble, and that he…