Landers v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for seduction; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The prosecutrix, Miss Rachel Jeter, and appellant were practically reared in the same community, and there is no dispute of the fact that they went constantly with each other for several years at and prior to the time of this alleged seduction. She testified that they became engaged, and that in the month of December, 1926, when she was sixteen years old, appellant had intercourse with her upon his promise to marry her; that thereafter he had other acts of intercourse, in all of which she consented, relying…