Collins v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, seduction; penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charges the offense to have happened on about the 1st day of December, 1927. Prosecutrix testified to an attempted act of intercourse happening on the 8th day of December, 1927, and two completed acts happening shortly after that time. As the result of the last of these she gave birth to a child some nine months thereafter. When it was ascertained that she was in a family way and upon the refusal of the appellant to marry her, a complaint charging appellant with rape by force was filed against him. The…