Robertson v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Pontotoc county of seduction and Ms punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of 60 days and a fine of $1,000.

The record discloses that at the time charged defendant, who was of the age of 23 years, seduced under promise of marriage one Zenobia Jervis, of the age of 20 years. The prosecutrix testified to the acts of intercourse under promise of marriage. The only corroboration of her testimony is that she kept company with defendant and that she told her mother and made some…