Stinehouse v. State

The appellant was indicted for seduction. He moved the court to quash the indictment, which motion-was overruled. He then pleaded not guilty, and the case was tried by a jury, who returned a verdict of guilty, and fixing the punishment, and, over a motion for a new trial, judgment was pronounced against him on the verdict. Proper exceptions were taken to the several rulings of the court. The errors assigned bring before us the correctness of these rulings.

It is claimed that the indictment should have been quashed because it alleged that the seduction was "by means of a promise of marriage,”…