Thomas v. State

It is unnecessary to discuss any ground of the motion for a new trial except the particular ground upon which the lower court is reversed; and no extended discussion of that ground is required, in view of the ruling made by the Supreme Court upon the abstract question decided by that court in this case, and left for application by the Court of Appeals.

The precise question submitted to the Supreme Court, with the answer made thereto by a majority of that court, was as follows: "In the trial of a case of seduction, was the following charge to the jury error because it tended to discredit in the…