Riddleberger v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Shenandoah county.
1Opinion of the CourtSims, J.
In this case the accused was convicted, under section 3677 of the Code, of the seduction of the prosecutrix under promise of marriage, and the judgment complained of was entered by the court below accordingly.
In the view we take of the case, only one of the assignments of error need be considered, and that is, that there was error in the refusal of the trial court to set aside the verdict of the jury because there was no evidence to support the testimony of the prosecutrix in her claim that there was a promise of marriage.
Section 3679 of the Code provides that no conviction shall be had of…
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