State v. Curran

i ckimiis-al meat /“eduotlon/ — I. The defendant demurred to the indictment on the ground that it “contained no charge of facts as to the means made use of to accomplish intercourse, which are essential to constitute the crime of seduction.”

The charge is that the defendant “unlawfully and feloniously did seduce, carnally know and debauch one Laura E. Herring.” The indictment, we think, is in the usual form and sufficient. The offense is created by statute, and it is sufficient to charge in the words of the statute, unless the words used are such that they do not necessarily charge the *114offense.…