Watson v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of seduction in Franklin Circuit Court, Ozark District, and as punishment therefor adjudged to serve one year in the State Penitentiary. From that judgment an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.

Appellant’s first contention for reversal is that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict, first, because it does not reveal an unconditional promise by appellant to marry the prosecutrix as an inducement to the act of sexual intercourse; and second, that the evidence of the prosecutrix was without corroboration.(1) The…