Helton v. State

The special presentment in this case charges that, on October 12, 1931, in Fulton county, Georgia, Clark Helton did “by persuasion and false and fraudulent promises of marriage, seduce a virtuous, unmarried female, to wit, Dorothy Atkinson. . .”

It appears from the evidence that Dorothy Atkinson was seventeen years old at the time of the trial, and was unmarried. There is testimony that the defendant had sexual intercourse with Dorothy on three different occasions—once in February, 1931, once on July 26, 1931, and once on October 12, 1931. We quote from the testimony of Dorothy Atkinson as…