Morphis v. State

Appellant was convicted of the crime of seduction, and his appeal from that judgment is pending in this court, the case not being yet ready for submission.

He now presents a motion for suspension of further proceedings under a statute which provides that “if any man, against whom a prosecution has begun, either before a justice of the peace, or by an indictment by a grand jury, for the crime of seduction, shall marry the female alleged to have been seduced, such prosecution shall not then be .terminated, biut shall be suspended; provided, that if at any time thereafter the accused shall…