Castleberry v. State

The fifth headnote alone needs elaboration. The State’s evidence was undisputed, outside of the defendant’s statement, and demanded that a verdict of guilty be returned. The defendant in his statement declared, that he had gone for *70about six months with the woman alleged to have been seduced by him; that he proposed marriage to her, and was accepted; that he procured a license to marry her, and often begged her to marry him, but she continually'refused to do so; that he had never had sexual intercourse with her; that after her continued refusals to marry him he left the State and went to…