Bost v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

On October 28, 1910, the grand jury of Clay County indicted the appellant for seduction, charging that on or about January 10, 1910, the appellant did unlawfully seduce Alma Whitaker, an unmarried woman, under the age of twenty-five years, and obtain carnal knowledge of her by means and in virtue •of a promise of marriage to her previously made by him. The appellant was tried November 9, 1910, found guilty and his punishment fixed at three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Besides an able oral argument, when the cause was submitted, the appellant’s attorneys have filed…