Collins v. State

The Code, § 26-6001, declares that “Any person who shall, by persuasion and promises of marriage or other false and fraudulent means, seduce a virtuous unmarried female and induce, her to yield to his lustful embraces and allow him to have carnal knowledge of her, shall be punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than 20 years.” This section does not contemplate an additional punishment for adultery or fornication (Wood v. State, 48 Ga. 193, 295, 15 Am. R. 664), but in part it aims at the prevention of a pending engagement to marry, and the…