State v. Crowell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for seduction of an innocent and virtuous woman, under promise of marriage, found at Spring Term, 1895, of Catawba Superior Court, before Timberlake, J., and a jury. Miss Etta Propst, the prosecutrix testified : “I am twenty-two years old; have lived always in Catawba County. First met defendant when I was about twelve years old. He was living in Lincoln County, about one and a half miles from where I lived.
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INDICTMENT for seduction of an innocent and virtuous woman, under promise of marriage, found at Spring Term, 1895, of Catawba Superior Court, before Timberlake, J., and a jury. Miss Etta Propst, the prosecutrix testified : “I am twenty-two years old; have lived always in Catawba County. First met defendant when I was about twelve years old. He was living in Lincoln County, about one and a half miles from where I lived. I was an innocent woman up to the time I became intimate with defendant. We were engaged to be married ; engagement was made when I was sixteen years old. He paid attention to…
1Opinion of the Court
ClabK, J.:
The Code, Section 1177, excepts from the two years statute of limitation, perjury, forgery, malicious misdemeanors and deceit. There has never been such an indictable offence as “ deceit ” but the meaning of this section has always been that misdemeanors, the gist of which was malice or deceit, are within the exception. In State v. Christianbury, 44 N. C., 46, it was held that there being no such offence as “ deceit ” it would apply to “ cheating by *1057*false token” of which deceit was the .gist but would not include “ conspiracy to cheat ” “ the gist of which offence is the conspiracy…
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