Lind v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, First Division; Jmo. W. Wade, Judge; STATEMENT OF FACTS. This appeal is from a judgment of conviction of the crime of seduction. Eva Wilder, the prosecutrix, testified that she was 23 years of age; that she had kept company with the appellant off and on for two or three years up to the middle of March, 1917, when she had sexual intercourse with him.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, First Division; Jmo. W. Wade, Judge; STATEMENT OF FACTS. This appeal is from a judgment of conviction of the crime of seduction. Eva Wilder, the prosecutrix, testified that she was 23 years of age; that she had kept company with the appellant off and on for two or three years up to the middle of March, 1917, when she had sexual intercourse with him. During the year preceding he had visited her sometimes two or three times a week and sometimes about once a month. Appellant had other company during that year before the month of February, but not thereafter.…
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, J.,
(after stating the facts). 1. Under Section 2044 of Kirby’s Digest, one who is being prosecuted for seduction may have the prosecution suspended by marrying the female alleged to have been seduced, and the prosecution shall not be revived unless the accused wilfully and without legal cause abandons such female. This statute was for the benefit of the accused and was intended to give him an opportunity to volutarily condone his offense by making reparation as far as possible to the injured female whose confidence he had betrayed. But the statute has no application in a case where the…
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