State ex rel. McCalley v. Superior Court

— On the 2d day of January, 1907, an information was filed in the superior court of Walla Walla county, charging the petitioner, Walter S. McCalley, with the crime of seducing and debauching one Amelia Villa, an unmarried woman of previous chaste character. The petitioner was arraigned under the information and entered a plea of not guilty. Thereafter on the 23d day of .January, 1907, and while the prosecution was still pending, the petitioner and Amelia Villa intermarried, and all further proceedings under the information were stayed by virtue of section 1 of the act of February 24, 1905,…