State v. Robertson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for seduction, tried before Robinson, J., and a jury at July Term, 1897, of Wake Superior Court. The defendant was convicted and appealed assigning as error the admission of certain evidence for the State and the remarks of his Honor to bystanders at the trial.
1Opinion of the Court
FuRChes, J.:
This is an indictment for seduction under promise to marry, under the Act of 1885, Chapter 248.
There are three exceptions presented by the record, two as to evidence and one as to remarks made by the Judge during the progress of the trial, in which it is alleged the Judge expressed an opinion as to the facts in the case prejudicial to the defendant.
The State asked Julia Hester, the prosecutrix, if subsequent to September 1893 there were other illicit acts committed by them of a carnal character. This was objected to by defendant but allowed by the Court and the witness answered in…
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