State v. Heatherton
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Fayette District Court. The defendant was convicted upon an indictment charging him with the seduction of a woman of previously chaste character. He now appeals to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
i seduction• dcnce to supp°rt. — I. Under the statutes of the State (Code, § 3867), the seduction of an unmarried woman of previously c^as^e character, is a crime punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, or by fine and imprisonment in the county jail. Counsel for the *177defendant insist that the proof in this case fails to show that. the prosecutrix was an unmarried woman, and that for this reason, the verdict is not supported by the evidence.
We think, while the evidence does not contain the testimony .of any witness disclosing in terms that plaintiff was unmarried, ■there is ample evidence…
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