Stone v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction for seduction under section 1081, Code of 1906 (section 849, Hemingway’s 1927 Code), which provides that: “Any person who shall seduce and have illicit connection with any female child under the age of eighteen years, of previous chaste character, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than ten years ; but the testimony of the female seduced alone shall not be sufficient for conviction.”

One of the assignments of error is that the court below should have granted the appellant’s request for a directed verdict of not guilty, and…