People v. Squires

In January, 1882, the respondent was .«convicted of having seduced and debauched one Mary Stiles on the 5th of September, 1880, and the case is brought here ■on exceptions before judgment.

The material evidence was given by the prosecutrix, and -she testified that the respondent, being unmarried and keeping house with an unmarried sister of middle age, employed, *488the prosecutrix to do housework at a dollar and a half a week; that she commenced work the 7th of April, 1878, when not quite seventeen years of age ; that shortly before March,, 1879, he began taking liberties and finally in the…