State v. Teeter
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court. — Now. Geo. W. Wana/maker, Judge. (1) The motion to quash the information should have been sustained. (2) It was highly improper and prejudicial for the prosecuting attorney in his opening statement to state “She was seduced on February 28, 1909; on December 8, 1909 the child was born.”
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Appeal from Grundy Circuit Court. — Now. Geo. W. Wana/maker, Judge. (1) The motion to quash the information should have been sustained. (2) It was highly improper and prejudicial for the prosecuting attorney in his opening statement to state “She was seduced on February 28, 1909; on December 8, 1909 the child was born.” (3) The defendant objected to the following statement of the prosecutrix, “Well, when he first tried to seduce me, I would not consent, and I told him I did not think it was right, and he so fully made me believe, and said we were going to be married, and wouldn’t be anything…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
— Defendant was convicted on a charge of seducing and debauching, under promise of marriage, one Ruth Bosley, an unmarried female. From a judgment fixing his punishment at three years in the penitentiary, he appeals.
The information contained two counts; in one, defendant is charged with seducing prosecutrix under *481promise of marriage; and in the other, with having unlawful carnal knowledge of said prosecutrix.
According to the evidence of prosecutrix, her entire courtship with defendant was conducted at- the home of her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Call, who resided a few miles from the home óf…
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