MacKey v. Commonwealth

OpiNioN op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appeal is from a conviction of the crime of seduction under promise of marriage, carrying a penalty of one year in prison. The prosecutrix testified explicitly that the defendant had .sexual intercourse with her at a certain time and place, and unequivocally, with out any suggestion of affection or love, that she had yielded to him because of his offer and promise to marry her. There was no evidence of any artifice, beguilement, or blandishment exercised by him. He merely proposed that if she would indulge he would marry her. The…