State v. . Moody

Defendant was convicted and appealed. The defendant was indicted for the seduction of an innocent and virtuous woman under a promise of marriage. Revisal, sec. 3354.

The statute provides that the "unsupported testimony" of the woman shall not be sufficient to convict.

There are three essential elements of this crime: first, the seduction; second, the innocence and virtuousness of the woman; third, the promise of marriage inducing consent of the woman to the sexual act. S. v. Pace,159 N.C. 462; S. v. Cline, 170 N.C. 751. The prosecutrix testified to the defendant's promise of marriage; that she…