Wagnon v. State

1. “An essential element in the offense of seduction is that the person seduced was an unmarried, as well as a virtuous, female. Penal Code (1910), § 378 [Code, (1933), § 36-6001]. It follows that upon a prosecution for that offense, the burden is on the State to affirmatively show that the female charged to have been seduced was an unmarried woman at the time of the alleged offense.” Crumpler v. State, 46 Ga. App. 58 (166 S. E. 457), and cit.

2. This case is controlled by the decision of this court in the Grumpier case, supra. In that ease, as shown by the record of file in the office of the…