Landers v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

It is the settled law in this state that to make out the offense of seduction the injured female must have surrendered her virtue solely on the promise of marriage; if she submits to the carnal embrace partly because of such promise and partly from some other inducing cause it is not seduction. Barnes v. State, 37 Texas Crim. Rep., 320, 39 S. W., 684; Nolan v. State, 48 Texas Crim. Rep., 436; Simmons v. State, 54 Texas Crim. Rep., 619, 114 S. W., 841; Mulhause v. State, 56 Texas Crim. Rep., 288, 119 S. W., 866; Collins v. State (Texas Crim. App.), 26 S.…