Miller v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

[Affirming’.

Appellant seeks the reversal of a judgment imposing upon him one year’s imprisonment for the seduction of a female under 21 years of age under a promise of marriage.

Both the accused, then 22 years of age, and his victim, then 18, were reared and lived in Calloway county. They were both poor. Both had been reared on a farm, neither had enjoyed any but limited school and other social advantages, hence neither had that culture, refinement, or social restraint and control that such opportunities would have given them and were, as appellant’s…