Glover v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Forrest county. Hon. Paul B. JohNSok, Judge. Tom Glov.er was convicted of seduction and appeals.. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Appellant submits that his motion for a peremptory-instruction should have been sustained.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Forrest county. Hon. Paul B. JohNSok, Judge. Tom Glov.er was convicted of seduction and appeals.. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Appellant submits that his motion for a peremptory-instruction should have been sustained. The evidence-of the prosecutrix is wholly uncorroborated upon the following essential and vital elements of the crime-charged: (1) - That the prosecutrix was of previous-chaste character; (2) That the alleged illicit relations were procured by virtue of a promise of marriage, and that it was because of this promise that…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.
The appellant, Tom Glover, was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Forrest county of the •crime of seduction. From the judgment of that court 'this appeal is prosecuted.
*795Without stating the facts in the case, it is sufficient to say that the testimony of the prosecutrix as to her previous chaste character, the promise of marriage of her by the. defendant, and the act of seduction were in no way corroborated by any other testimony in the case. Section 1372 of the Code of 1906 (section 1108, Hemingway’s Code). Long v. State, 100 Miss. 7, 56 So. 185, Lewis v. State, 111 Miss. 833, 72…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Ferguson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1894
- Long v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1911
- Carter v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1911
- Lewis v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1916