Odum v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for seduction; from Bacon superior court — Judge Summerall. June 15, 1917. The prosecutrix testified: “He [the defendant] began to make love to me when he had been there four or five times. He promised to marry me. I agreed to marry him, and he promised to marry me if I would submit to him. I loved him and he had made love to me.
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Indictment for seduction; from Bacon superior court — Judge Summerall. June 15, 1917. The prosecutrix testified: “He [the defendant] began to make love to me when he had been there four or five times. He promised to marry me. I agreed to marry him, and he promised to marry me if I would submit to him. I loved him and he had made love to me. I said he premised to marry me, told me if I would submit to him he would marry me, told me that several times, told me about three months before I did submit to him that if I would submit to him he would marry me; and' it was just that way every time that…
1Opinion of the Court
HarweiupJ.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) 1. The indictment in-this case began as follows: “State of Georgia, Bacon County. The grand jurors, selected, chosen, and sworn for the county of-, to wit,” etc. The defendant, before plead*312ing to the indictment, demurred on the ground that it was fatally insufficient, because the name of the. county for which the grand jurors were sworn was omitted in the indictment. It is contended that this precise question has never been ruled in this State. We call attention to the decision by the Supreme Court .in the case of Stevens v. State, 76 6a. 96,…
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