Miller v. State

— The appellant was tried and found guilty, as charged in an indictment predicated upon section 1993, R. S. 1881, which reads as follows: “Whoever entices or takes away any female of previous chaste character from wherever she may be to a house of ill-fame, or elsewhere, for the purpose of prostitution, shall be imprisoned,” etc.

It was charged in the indictment, substantially, that the appellant and two other men, who are jointly indicted with him, did unlawfully and feloniously entice and take away, etc.,' a certain female named, 16 years of age, of previous chaste character, to a certain…