State v. Tingle
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Neshoba county. Hon. C. L. Dobbs, Judge. N. W. Tingle was indicted for seduction. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the indictment, the state appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Neshoba county. Hon. C. L. Dobbs, Judge. N. W. Tingle was indicted for seduction. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the indictment, the state appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. I have examined with some care the authorities on this proposition, and so far as I have been able to find not a single authority sustaining the decision that an indictment is demurrable for a failure to allege the promise was made to the female who was seduced. In the case of People v. Euguira, 122 Cal. 466, the su preme court of California, in…
1Opinion of the Court
Cook, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Tbe circuit court of Neshoba county sustained a demurrer to an indictment preferred against appellee by tbe grand jury of that county, which, omitting tbe formal part, is as follows: “N. W. Tingle, late of tbe county aforesaid, on tbe-day of-, A. D. 1909, with force and arms in tbe county aforesaid, and within tbe jurisdiction of tbis court, did unlawfully and willfully, under *677and by virtue of a feigned promise of marriage, obtain carnal knowledge of Miss Ida Clark, a female over the age of eighteen years, she being a previous chate character; and…
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