Knight v. State

In this case appellant was prosecuted, charged with seduction, was convicted and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the alleged seduced female and appellant are cousins, and prior to this occurrence both were of good standing. The prosecuting witness, Miss Annie Slaughter, testified that she was twenty-one years old, and that defendant was twenty-three years of age; that they were third cousins. That she had known defendant about six years; that appellant first began to come to see her or court her in the fall of the first year she…