Tyree v. Commonwealth

Joseph Marshall Tyree, the accused, was indicted, tried by a jury, and convicted of the seduction of Nancy Bryant. His punishment was fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

Nancy Bryant, who was sixteen years of age at the time of the alleged seduction, had been reared in the rural section of Amherst county. She had attended the public schools of the county, and at the time she was in the first year high school. In 1943 she left home, went to Lynchburg and became employed in the plant of the Old Dominion Box Company. After a few months she stopped work and returned to her home in Amherst…