Elkins v. Commonwealth

Plaintiff in error, Randolph Elkins, was tried by the civil and police justice of the city of Radford, upon a warrant charging him with causing and encouraging a female child under the age of eighteen years to commit a misdemeanor, to-wit, fornication. He was found guilty and his punishment fixed at a fine of $25 and confinement in jail for a period of thirty days. From that judgment the defendant appealed to the corporation court, where a trial by a jury was had, and he was again found guilty and his punishment fixed at a fine of $100 and six months’ confinement in jail.

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