Webster v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

At Ms trial under an indictment charging Mm with seducing a female under 21 years of age under promise of marriage (as denounced by section 1214 of our present Statutes), the appellant and defendant below, Isaac Webster, was convicted in the G-rant circuit court and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for two years. On this appeal by him after his motion for a new trial was overruled, his counsel argues three grounds for a reversal of the judgment, which are: (1) That the verdict was and is flagrantly against the evidence, and exhibits…