Britt v. Commonwealth

James Hazel Britt was convicted by a jury and his punishment fixed at two years in the State Penitentary on an indictment charging him with seducing under promise of marriage Thelma Dickerson, an unmarried female of previous chaste character. The lower court overruled a motion for a new trial and entered judgment on the verdict. We granted the defendant a writ of error.

Prior to his arraignment the defendant moved the court to quash the indictment on the ground that in its charge to the grand jury the court stated that “the Commonwealth’s attorney does not send all of his witnesses to the…