McCullar v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wilson. Tried below before Hon. Thos. H. Spooner. This appeal is from a conviction for seduction, the punishment being assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Wilson. Tried below before Hon. Thos. H. Spooner. This appeal is from a conviction for seduction, the punishment being assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The name of the prosecutrix is Anna May Lindsey, and she testified, that she was 19 years of age; had known defendant for six years; had been engaged to marry him going on three years, and they were to have been married in March, 1895; that, in April, 1894, as she was coming from church with defendant, in a sulky, he over-persuaded her, and, under his renewed promise of marriage, she…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of seduction, and given two years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. There is nothing in appellant’s motion to quash the indictment in this case. It follows the statutes, and is in accordance with Willson’s form on the subject. On the trial of this case, the defendant introduced Eliza Mc-Cullar to prove that Anna May Lindsey was not a woman of virtuous character. Said witness testified on her direct examination that she knew the general reputation of Anna May Lindsey in the community in which she lived, as a woman of virtue and chastity,…
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