Peyton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Ratliff

Affirming.

The appellant was tried and convicted in the Casey circuit court and sentenced to the penitentiary for two years under an indictment charging him with the crime of seduction. The indictment charged that appellant,, under promise of marriage, seduced and had carnal knowledge of Dorthy Brown, a female under the age of 21 years and not a married woman.

The prosecutrix testified that she had known appellant all her life and kept company with him in 1936, at which time she was only 20 years old; that she and appellant became engaged to be married in…