Thorp v. State

McCORD, Judge.

From a conviction for seduction with a penalty of two years confinement in the penitentiary, appellant has appealed to this court asking a revision of the trial of the case in the court below. An indictment was returned in the District Court of Knox County at the March term, 1908, charging appellant with seducing one Flora Dykes, an unmarried woman under the age of twenty-five z years. He was brought to trial at the October term, 1909, resulting in his conviction.

The record discloses that at the time of the trial the prosecutrix, Flora Dykes, was married to a Mr. Davis, The…