Carroll v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Webster county. Chester Carroll, appellant, was indicted, tried and convicted under code 1892, § 1298, for the seduction of Agnes Boucher.
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From the circuit court of Webster county. Chester Carroll, appellant, was indicted, tried and convicted under code 1892, § 1298, for the seduction of Agnes Boucher. When the prosecutrix was cross-examined by defendant’s attorney, she was asked if she had not stated to Ida Carroll, before her alleged seduction, that ‘ ‘ if a girl gets pregnant by a man it was her own fault; that there was plenty of medicine to take which would prevent a girl from becoming pregnant, and that she knew what the medicine was.” The district attorney objected to the question, and the court sustained the objection,…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
Without now passing upon any other assignments of error than those specially noted, we deem it enough to say that the witness, Miss Ida Carroll, should have been permitted to testify in contradiction of Miss Boucher. The last named witness’ testimony on this point was objected to (as to medicine to prevent pregnancy, etc., and its being a girl’s own fault if she became pregnant from sexual intercourse), and the objection was sustained, but she answered anyway, denying in the most positive terms that she had made the statement; and the record does not show that this was excluded from the jury,…
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