Schooley v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in the Howard Circuit Court on a charge of seduction, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary and a fine of one hundred dollars. Appellant filed motion for new trial, which was overruled, exceptions saved, and appeal prosecuted.

The proof shows that appellant, who was about twenty years old, had intercourse with the prosecuting witness, Dura Stone, a girl about eighteen years old. Appellant admitted having intercourse with her.

Dura Stone testified that appellant promised to marry her.

Several men testified that they had had…