Crossett v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is seduction; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The injured female was dead at the time of the trial. Appellant’s theory, supported by his testimony, was that she yielded her virtue without the promise of marriage, and in much detail, he revealed instances of their associations both antecedent to and at the time the sexual relations began. This testimony would apparently invite an inquiry into the character of the injured party, and upon that issue her environments and the nature of her associations would seem to…