Thacker v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case the defendant was charged with the offense of abandonment after seduction and marriage. Upon a trial he was convicted and sentenced to three years confinement in the State penitentiary.

The indictment in this case charges that defendant on or about the 1st day of September, 1907, unlawfully seduced Winnie McLester, and was indicted for that offense by the grand jury of Eastland County; that after indictment found and before announcement of ready for trial, defendant legally married said Winnie McLester, and thereafter abandoned his said wife without fault on her…