Crumpler v. State

Broyles, O. J.

1. An essential element in the offense of seduction is that the person seduced was an unmarried, as well as a virtuous, female. Penal Code (1910), § 378. It follows that upon a prosecution for that offense, the burden is on the State to affirmatively show that the female charged to have been seduced was an unmarried woman at the time of the alleged offense. See, in this connection, Bennett v. State, 103 Ga. 66 (29 S. E. 919, 68 Am. St. R. 77); Neil v. State, 117 Ga. 14 (43 S. E. 435); Zackery v. State, 6 Ga. App. 104 (64 S. E. 281); People v. Krusick, 93 Cal. 74 (28 Pac. 794);…