State v. . Malonee

"Walker, J.

Tbe defendant was indicted for tbe crime of seducing an innocent and virtuous woman under promise of marriage. (Revisal, sec. 3354.) Tbe statute provides tbat tbe unsupported testimony of the woman shall not be sufficient to convict. Tbe prosecutrix testified to tbe promise of marriage, tbe seduction, and ber innocence and virtue. A child was born to ber, and was eighteen months old at tbe time of tbe trial. There was evidence tending to show tbat prior to ber alleged seduction by tbe defendant she bad always been a woman of good character and led a blameless life, and tbat as a…