Barrington v. State

Code § 26-6001 provides as follows: “Any person who shall, by persuasion and promises of marriage or other false and fraudulent means, seduce a virtuous unmarried female and induce her to yield to his lustful embraces and allow him to have carnal knowledge of her, shall be punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for not less than 2 nor more than 20 years.” It is contended by the defendant that the evidence is not sufficient to support the verdict, for the reason that *327the provisions of this Code section are not met in that there was no proof that the defendant “by persuasion and…