State v. Sutherland

It will be necessary to consider but one question presented, as that is decisive of the case.

*563The woman, with whose seduction the prisoner is charged in the indictment, was introduced as a witness, and by her the act of seduction was proved. Upon her cross-examination several questions were propounded to her by defendant’s counsel, as to her prior unchaste acts and conversations, and her connection, before the date of the alleged offense, with men other than defendant. These questions required her to answer whether she had not used indecent language in conversations with certain men, whose…