O'Neill v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
. Seduction. Criminal law. Charge of court. Before Judge Winn (motion for a new trial before Judge Gober). Cherokee superior court. September term, 1889. Albert O’Neill was indicted for seduction of Mary Hall. The evidence was as follows: Mary Hall: I am a single woman. O’Neill is an unmarried man. He visited me in 1887 and 1888; he quit coming in January, 1888; he come once or twice after that, but not to see me; he visited me ten months.
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. Seduction. Criminal law. Charge of court. Before Judge Winn (motion for a new trial before Judge Gober). Cherokee superior court. September term, 1889. Albert O’Neill was indicted for seduction of Mary Hall. The evidence was as follows: Mary Hall: I am a single woman. O’Neill is an unmarried man. He visited me in 1887 and 1888; he quit coming in January, 1888; he come once or twice after that, but not to see me; he visited me ten months. Improper conduct took place between him and me during that time, in Cherokee county, in 1887. It was before I was before the grand jury as a witness in…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
This case was tried before Judge "Winn, since deceased; and the motion for a new trial was heard and denied by his successor, Judge Gober.
1. The trial judge charged the jury: “Under the decisions of our Supreme Court, I leave it to you to say what a virtuous woman is. I charge you that a woman who has had unlawful sexual intercourse with a man is not a virtuous woman. As to allowing a man to kiss her and take liberties with her, as to her being a virtuous woman, I leave that to you. You can consider that as honest men, taking what you know about human nature and…
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