State v. Crook

Appended to the record is a purported plea in bar based upon the marriage of the defendant and the prosecutrix alleged to have been solemnized in South Carolina since the trial; but the defendant, withdrawing this plea and relying upon a failure of proof, insists that bis motion to dismiss tbe action at tbe conclusion of tbe evidence should have been granted.

To convict tbe defendant of seduction it was incumbent upon tbe State to satisfy tbe jury beyond a reasonable doubt of every element essential to tbe offense. Tbe three elements are (1) tbe innocence and virtue of tbe prosecutrix, (2) tbe…