People v. Kenyon
New York Supreme Court
• The defendant was indicted for seduction under a promise of marriage. The following is'a copy of the indictment: State of New York, Yates county, ss: The jurors of the People of the State of New York, and for the body of the county of Yates aforesaid, upon their oath do present that Edward Kenyon, late of the town of Jerusalem, in the county of Yates aforesaid, heretofore, to wit, on the second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, at…
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• The defendant was indicted for seduction under a promise of marriage. The following is'a copy of the indictment: State of New York, Yates county, ss: The jurors of the People of the State of New York, and for the body of the county of Yates aforesaid, upon their oath do present that Edward Kenyon, late of the town of Jerusalem, in the county of Yates aforesaid, heretofore, to wit, on the second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, at the town of Jerusalem, in the county of Yates aforesaid, unlawfully, willfully and feloniously, under and by means of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Campbell, J.
The prisoner, Edgar Kenyon, was indicted at the Yates County Oyer and Terminer, and afterwards.tried at the Sessions in that county, and found guilty of the seduction, under promise of marriage, of one Mary Chissom, a young unmarried female, of sixteen years of age. He was indicted under an act passed by the legislature of this State in 1848, and entitled “An act to punish seduction as a crime.” There was an act passed in England, as far back as the reign of Henry VII, which made the forcible abduction and marriage or defilement of a woman a crime, provided the woman…
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