State v. . Fulcher
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT tried before Daniels, J., and a jury, at June Term, 1918, of Nance. Defendant was indicted for tbe seduction of Myrtle West under promise of marriage. Sbe testified that tlie defendant, in July, 1917, had promised to marry her; that he had visited her frequently since the April before, and was accepted as her lover, and that in consequence of his promise to marry her she had yielded to his embraces and had committed the sexual act with him several times.
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INDICTMENT tried before Daniels, J., and a jury, at June Term, 1918, of Nance. Defendant was indicted for tbe seduction of Myrtle West under promise of marriage. Sbe testified that tlie defendant, in July, 1917, had promised to marry her; that he had visited her frequently since the April before, and was accepted as her lover, and that in consequence of his promise to marry her she had yielded to his embraces and had committed the sexual act with him several times. She did so every time he came to see her, because he had often professed love for her, and she loved him, and especially because…
1Opinion of the Court
WalKER, J.,
after stating the case: The defendant’s motion to nonsuit was properly overruled, as there was evidence for the jury as to the innocence and virtue of the woman, as to the seduction, and as to the promise inducing it.
1. As to her innocence and virtue, the evidence of her uniformly good character before her fall was properly received, according to our precedents, as some evidence supporting her direct and positive testimony that she committed her first sexual act with the defendant and “had never had sexual intercourse with any other man.” Taking all of the evidence into…
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