Evans v. Commonwealth

The accused, Leonard Lee Evans, was arraigned in the Circuit Court of Wise county upon this indictment:

'The Grand Jurors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in and for the body of said County of Wise and now attending said court at its January term, in the year 1944, upon their oaths, do present that Leonard Lee Evans on the .... day of .........., 1943, within one year next prior to the finding of this indictment, in said county of Wise, did unlawfully and feloniously, under promise of marriage, seduce and have carnal illicit knowledge- of one Delsie Galloway, a female of previous chaste…