Commonwealth v. White, Judge

Opinion ky

Judge Thomas

Sustaining demurrer and dismissing petition.

At the November, 1940, term of the Montgomery Circuit Court its grand jury indicted one Ralph Blanton, whereby he was accused of the statutory felony denounced in Section 1214 of Baldwin’s 1936 Revision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, i. e., seducing and having “carnal knowledge of any female under twenty-one years of age, ’’ if done “under promise of marriage. ’’ The second sentence says: “No prosecution shall be instituted where the person charged shall have married the girl seduced, or offer and be willing to marry her,…