Maples v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

The appellant, Luther Maples, was convicted of the crime of seduction and sentenced to one year in the peni tentiary. He urges as grounds for reversal that the evidence of the alleged promise of marriage was not sufficient to support the verdict, that incompetent evidence was admitted, and that the court erred in failing to define seduction in the instructions.

The prosecuting witness, Mary Messer, resides with her mother at Hignite, Bell county, Ky. The appellant drove a taxi from Notown to Hignite carrying miners to work, and on one of these trips…