Ruffin v. State

This is an appeal from a misdemeanor conviction. The appellant was convicted of violating § 3479 of Pope’s Digest, which is commoply known as the “Peace and Tranquility Statute.” The evidence is uncontradicted. The prosecuting witness was a young lady 18 years of age, and the appellant, a mature man, was the janitor at the factory where the prosecuting witness was employed. He approached her at her place of work, and, in the hearing of another female employee, made to the prosecuting witness a proposition in part as follows: “I would give you ten dollars to take you out ... I would take you…