People v. . Nelson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the general term affirming a judg-ment of the general term affirming a judgment of quarter sessions convicting him of seduction, entered on the verdict of a jury.
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Appeal from a judgment of the general term affirming a judg-ment of the general term affirming a judgment of quarter sessions convicting him of seduction, entered on the verdict of a jury. On the 27th of September, 1893, the defendant was indicted “ for that the said George Nelson, on or about the 7th day of December, 1892, and on divers other times before and after that date, * * * under promise of marriage, did feloniously, wrongfully, and willfully seduced and have sexual intercourse with one Fannie A. Moore, * * * then and there being an unmarried female of previous chaste character.” In…
1Opinion of the Court
In March, 1891, when the defendant was twenty years of age and the prosecutrix was fifteen, he asked her to marry him and she said that she would if her parents would consent. On the second of August following he proposed sexual intercourse, which she at first refused, but upon his promise to marry her "if anything happened" as soon as she discovered that she was pregnant, she finally consented. From that time until March, 1893, he had connection with her every two or three months, and on each occasion, according to her statement, before the act he promised to marry her "if he got her into…
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