Bowers v. State
Ohio Supreme Court
Motion for the allowance of a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Sandusky county. This was an indictment for seduction, under the statute of April 4, 1859 (S. & C. 452). On' the trial, the defendant offered to prove that the prosecutrix had had illicit carnal intercourse with men other than himself prior to the time of his alleged offense. This evidence was rejected by the court, and the defendant excepted to the ruling.
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Motion for the allowance of a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Sandusky county. This was an indictment for seduction, under the statute of April 4, 1859 (S. & C. 452). On' the trial, the defendant offered to prove that the prosecutrix had had illicit carnal intercourse with men other than himself prior to the time of his alleged offense. This evidence was rejected by the court, and the defendant excepted to the ruling. The prosecutrix having beenmxamined by the state as a witness, and having denied, on her cross-examination, that she had ever admitted that the defendant’s…
1Opinion of the CourtWelch, C. J.
The instruction asked by the defendant and refused by the court, and the rejection of testimony tending to show specific acts of lewdness on the part of theprosecutrix, raise the same question, namely, whether the protection of the statute extends to all females under the age-of eighteen whose reputation for chastity is good, or only to such as have deservedly acquired that reputation by a pure life. It seems to us that the plain words of the statute leave no room for doubt on this question. The statute provides: “ That any person over the age of eighteen years, who, under promise of…
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