Aldridge v. State

The appellant was indicted in the Circuit Court of Forrest County on a charge of seduction. The indict*372ment specifically charged that he “did -wilfully and unlawfully and feloniously seduce, obtain carnal knowledge of one Willena Walker, a single woman over the age of 18 years, of previous chaste character, by virtue of false promise of marriage to her previously made by him, the said Allen Leon Aldridge. ’ ’ It was charged in the indictment that the offense was committed in Forrest County. The prosecution was brought under Section 2374, Vol. 2A Recompiled, Mississippi Code of 1942, which…