Osborne v. State

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

Petition was filed in the Juvenile Court of Hutchinson County, Texas, contending Nickey Lynn Osborne was a delinquent child in that he committed a crime of the grade of felony under the penal code of the State of Texas. Vernon’s Ann.P.C. art. 47. The petition alleged the felony to be that on or about the 21st day of September A.D. 1959, Nickey Lynn Osborne did seduce by promise to marry and have carnal knowledge of (naming the young lady) a female under the age of 25 years. The case was tried to a jury upon one special issue as follows: “Do you find from a preponderance of…