Crandall v. People
New York Supreme Court
The plaintiff in error was tried at the Chenango County Court of Sessions in December, 1869, on an indictment charging Mm with seduction under promise of marriage, under chap. Ill of the Laws of 1848. The jury found him guilty and the court sentenced Mm to imprisonment at hard labor in the State prison at Auburn for the term of two years. He made a bill of exceptions, taken on Ms trial, which formed a part of the record of Ms conviction.
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The plaintiff in error was tried at the Chenango County Court of Sessions in December, 1869, on an indictment charging Mm with seduction under promise of marriage, under chap. Ill of the Laws of 1848. The jury found him guilty and the court sentenced Mm to imprisonment at hard labor in the State prison at Auburn for the term of two years. He made a bill of exceptions, taken on Ms trial, which formed a part of the record of Ms conviction. The case was brought into this court by writ of error, but. no stay of execution of the judgment was granted.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court —
Balcom, P. J.
The statute under which the prisoner was indicted, convicted and sentenced, is as follows: “ Any man who shall, under promise of marriage, seduce and *310have illicit connection with any unmarried female of previous chaste character, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in a State prison not exceeding five years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year; provided that no conviction shall be had under the provisions of this act, on the testimony of the female seduced, unsupported by other evidence.”…
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