State v. Davis

The defendant was con-

victed and sentenced for violating section 1 of Act 134 of 1890, p. 175 (as to which see the per curiam on the application for rehearing in State v. Savant, 115 La. 226, 229, 38 So. 974, 975).

His appeal presents three bills of exception.

Bills Nos. 1 and 2.

The statute is entitled, “An act making the abduction of women a crime;” and, so far as pertinent here, provides as follows;

“Section 1. That any person who shall fraudulently, deceitfully or by any false representation, entice, abduct, induce, decoy, hire, engage, employ or take any woman of previous chaste character…