State v. Wycoff
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Shelby ■ District Court. — IIon. N. W. Maoy, Judge. The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of tbe crime of seduction, and from tbe judgment of imprisonment rendered against bim be appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
*6711 *670I. Tbe charge is that on tbe twelfth day of December, 1897, tbe defendant “did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously seduce, debauch, and carnally know one Flora N. Whiteher, said Flora then and there being *671an unmarried female of previouly chaste character, contrary to and in violation of law.” The defendant’s first contention is that there is not sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict and judgment, in that it does not show that the defendant used seductive means, or that the prosecutrix was of previous chaste character. On the eighth day of October, 1897, the prosecutrix, then aged 23,…
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