Bethel v. State

The defendant, Justin Bethel, was tried below on an indictment charging him with the crime of seduction, alleged to have been committed by having carnal knowledge of Edna Sliger, an unmarried female, by virtue of a false and feigned express promise of marriage.

It appears from the testimony adduced at the trial that defendant and Edna Sliger, the girl alleged to have been seduced, were each about seventeen years of age- — ■ slightly under that age — at the time the alleged promise of marriage and act of sexual intercourse occurred, and that the girl was a few months older than the defendant.…