Curry v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

— The appellant was convicted for seducing Belle McFarland, an unmarried woman under the age of twenty-five years, charged to have been committed on or about January 15, 1910, and given the lowest penalty.

Soon after the crime was alleged to have been committed, an examining trial was' held at which appellant was present and heard and cross-examined the State’s witnesses. Belle McFarland testified on that trial and the substance of her testimony was taken down in writing which she signed, all of which was identified and introduced on this trial. We know that the practice in…