Gainer v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for the offense of seduction; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of six years.

The prosecutrix testified to her seduction by the appellant. The law, it is true, requires corroboration to both the act of intercourse and the promise of marriage, but without detailing them, we express the view that the corroborating evidence in the instant case was not insufficient as a matter of law. Slaughter v. State, 86 Texas Crim. Rep., 527, 218 S. W. Rep., 767; Nash v. State, 61 Texas Crim. Rep., 287; Wright v. State, 31 Texas Crim. Rep.,…