Meredith v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner — •

Affirming.

Hollie Meredith, has appealed from a judgment sen- fencing him to one year in the penitentiary for seducing Ola Bell under promise of marriage.

This crime was committed in the spring of 1934. The appellant was then 22 years of age, his victim just 14, and as a result of their relations the birth of a child on April 5, 1935, thrust upon her while she was less than 15 years old that most unenviable social status of being neither wife or widow, maid or matron.

This girl testifies the appellant began to visit her along in March, 1934, and…