Scruggs v. State

The plaintiff in error, John Scruggs, *84is under a ten years’ sentence for the' abduction of Etta Carter, a girl fourteen years of age, from the home and custody of her father, for the purpose of ju’ostitutiou or concubinage. Though admitting that he took the girl seventy-five miles from her home without her father’s consent, and that he cohabited with her, and indulged in acts of sexual intercourse with her for several days, and until arrested for the offense, Scruggs defends principally on the ground that she was alreadj' a base and lewd woman, and, therefore, not a subject of the crime with…