Garrison v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting appellant of seduction under promise of marriage, and fixing his punishment at one year’s imprisonment.

According to the prosecutrix, who had been engaged in carrying the mail to Morgantown, appellant had visited her off and on for some time. In December, 1929, they agreed to marry, and about January 1, 1930, he had intercourse with her. Several acts of intercourse followed until he quit in June. All of this occurred at her home in a room to which the door was unlocked, and often when others were in the…