State v. Dusin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The defendant appeals from a conviction of having taken away Erma Morton, under the age of thirteen years, from her father and school teacher for the purpose of concubinage.

There was evidence showing that the defendant, eighteen years old, and Erma Morton, twelve years old, had met at dances and entertainments, but had not gone together. On February 19,1926, by prearrangement with her, he picked her up near a country school west of Phillipsburg where she was a pupil. The morning of that same day he had repainted his Ford roadster, giving it…