State v. Eisenhour
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court. — Hon. W. W. Rucker, Judge. (1) The court erred in allowing the prosecuting witness to state, against the objection of defendant, that a day or two before the trial he came back on Tuesday evening and promised to marry her. This was objected to as incompetent. Objection overruled, and defendant excepted.
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Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court. — Hon. W. W. Rucker, Judge. (1) The court erred in allowing the prosecuting witness to state, against the objection of defendant, that a day or two before the trial he came back on Tuesday evening and promised to marry her. This was objected to as incompetent. Objection overruled, and defendant excepted. This was more than a year after the alleged seduction, and was not evidence tending to prove that any promise of marriage existed at the time of the alleged seduction. State v. Pattison, 88 Mo. 100. (2) The court erred in refusing to allow the witness, Dr.…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
Prom a judgment of conviction fixing his punishment at a fine of $200 and imprisonment in the county jail for sixty days for seducing and debauching one Ada E. Jenkins, an unmarried female under.the age of eighteen years, under promise of marriage, defendant appealed. The offense is alleged to have been committed in Carroll county, and the trial and conviction were had in the circuit court of that county.
• The prosecuting witness and the defendant both lived in Carroll county about six miles apart. He called at her mother’s home with a friend, and became acquainted with her in the spring of…
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