Burney v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is seduction, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for ten years.

Prior to the institution of the prosecution appellant married the injured party. According to appellant’s testimony, he had been forcibly placed in an automobile at the point of a pistol and carried to Fort Worth, where the injured party was in a sanitarium. His abductors advised him on the way to Fort Worth, in effect, that,he would be killed unless he married prosecutrix. He testified that he believed the threat would be carried into execution and therefore went through the marriage…