Shattles v. State

The defendant was charged with the offense of seduction. Upon the trial the prosecutrix testified that, during the existence of a bona fide engagement to marry, the accused accomplished her ruin. The defendant, in his statement' at the trial, did not deny the engagement, but asserted that while he requested his fiancée to permit him to have sexual intercourse with her more than once during the engagement, she always refused, and that he never had sexual intercourse with her. The jury found him guilty of fornication, and the trial judge overruled his motion for a new trial.

*260There are two points…