Carter v. State

ON MOTION I?OK REHEARING.

Conceding, for the sake of the argument, that under the decisions cited by counsel for the plaintiff in error, Zachery v. State, 6 Ga. App. 105 (64 S. E. 281), and Craft v. State, 13 Ga. App. 79 (78 S. E. 776), the evidence in the record was not sufficient to show that the accused was a married man at the time he induced the girl to go away with him, still proof that the defendant was a married man was not an essential part of the State’s case. The .gist of the offense was the fraudulent intent by which the accused enticed the girl away. It was immaterial whether he…