Slaughter v. State

MORROW, Judge.

—The conviction is for seduction, and the principal question requiring consideration is the correctness of the court’s action in refusing, in response to appellant’s request, to amend his charge on the subject of corroboration of the testimony of the woman charged to have been seduced.

Our statute declares: “If any person by promise to marry shall seduce an unmarried female under the age of twenty-five years, and shall have carnal knowledge of such female, he shall be punished,” etc. “The term ‘seduction’ is used in tne sense in which it is commonly undertood.” P. C., Arts.…