Lyons v. State

This was a prosecution for abduction, under sec. 16, p. 441, 2 G. & H. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to the State’s prison; The refusal of the court to quash the indictment, and the overruling of the defendant’s motion for a new trial, are assigned as errors. "We see no valid objection to the indictment. There is a little surplusage in its allegations, but it is good notwithstanding.

On the trial, the defendant proposed to prove acts of illicit sexual intercourse on the part of the prosecuting witness prior to the alleged abduction, but the court rejected the evidence. We think…