Harris v. State

On the 18th day of January, 1919, in. the district court of Haskell county, Joseph Harris, plaintiff in error herein, and hereafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of the crime of seduction, committed on the 9th day of May, 1918, and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary. From this judgment of conviction defendant prosecutes his appeal to this court.

The defendant was a young Choctaw negro who courted a young negro girl living in the same community. During the spring of 1918 these parties were much in the society of one another, and, according to the…