State v. Nanna

On January 6, 1928, a jury in the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County found the defendant guilty of seduction, under Section 3259, Revised Statutes 1919, and assessed his punishment at four years in the penitentiary. The court in sentencing the defendant reduced the period to two years. Yet, he appealed.

Ruby Leslie, aged twenty, lived at Gravel Hill in Cape Girardeau County. How far that is from Cape Girardeau does not appear in the evidence. She had been taking instruction in the High School Training Department of the Southeast Missouri Teachers College for three years. At the times of…