Wood v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Seduction. Indictment. Presumption. Witness. Charge of Court. Res geste. Adultery and fornication. Before Judge Hopkins. DeKalb Superior Court. March Term, 1872. *Myron D. Wood was placed on trial for the offense of seduction. The indictment contained three counts.
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Criminal law. Seduction. Indictment. Presumption. Witness. Charge of Court. Res geste. Adultery and fornication. Before Judge Hopkins. DeKalb Superior Court. March Term, 1872. *Myron D. Wood was placed on trial for the offense of seduction. The indictment contained three counts. The first alleged “that the said Myron D. Wood, in the county aforesaid, on June 27th, 1868, did, by persuasion and promise of marriage, to-wit; by then and there promising to marry one Emma I. Chivers, when his, the said Myron D. Wood’s wife, to whom he was then married, should die, he, the said Myron D. Wood, then…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
By the laws of this State, seduction is treated as a most heinous crime, and is punished with the very longest period of penal *210servitude known to the Code, except that of perpetual imprisonment. If the crime be in fact committed, this is a most just and salutary law, since it is hardly possible to conceive of a more base and dastardly deed. It is a grievous *wrong, done by a selfish, heartless villain, against a helpless and innocent victim, and it is most justly denounced by all good people as a fiendish offense against God and against society. The man who is guilty of it has…
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