State v. Campbell

By an information filed in the Circuit Court of Schuyler County, the defendant was charged with the seduction, under promise of marriage, of an unmarried female of good repute and under twenty-one years of age. The venue was changed to the Circuit Court of Clark County, where he was convicted and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years. Following judgment and sentence in accordance with the verdict, he was allowed an appeal to this court.

According to the testimony of the prosecutrix, Lillie Maud Williams, she was seventeen years of age at the time of the alleged…