Keel v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of seduction and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for six years.

The subject of the offense was Inez Morgan, a girl between fifteen and sixteen years of age. She testified that she and appellant spent the night together at a hotel in Wichita Falls on November 22, 1917; that they had sexual intercourse, and that she submitted thereto by reason of promise of marriage made her by appellant.

The circumstances relied upon by the State for corroboration are the following: Appellant was a married man, of which fact she was ignorant. She…