Gaunt v. State

*491The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

This is an indictment for fornication, brought here by writ of error.

In his argument before this court, the counsel for the plaintiff in error relied upon two points. The first of these was the omission of the state to prove that the complaining witness was a single woman. This exception is not tenable. The indictment, it is true, charges that the person with whom the defendant committed fornication was a single woman. The single state is, however, the natural, and, during early life, the only possible one; nor. is there any period at which…