Berry v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Reversing.

Jesse Berry was indicted in the Ballard Circnit Court under section 1214, Kentucky ■ Statutes, for the crime of seduction, it being charged in the indictment that under the promise of marriage he seduced and had carnal knowledge of Bessie- Brown, a female under twenty-one years of age. Upon the trial of the ease, the proof,for the Commonwealth showed that he had had carnal knowledge of Bessie Brown, under promise of *399marriage, and that she was then under twenty-one years of age. The proof for him showed that he had intercourse with the girl…