Carlisle v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Copiah county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. The opinion states the case. The statute under which the appellant was convicted (§ 1004, code 1892) is as follows: “Any person who shall seduce and have illicit connection with any female child under the age of sixteen years,' of previous chaste character, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than ten years'; but the testimony of the female seduced alone shall not be…
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From the circuit court of Copiah county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. The opinion states the case. The statute under which the appellant was convicted (§ 1004, code 1892) is as follows: “Any person who shall seduce and have illicit connection with any female child under the age of sixteen years,' of previous chaste character, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than ten years'; but the testimony of the female seduced alone shall not be sufficient for conviction. ’ ’ The crime of seduction was unknown to the common law, and is purely statutory. -The carnal…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The appellant has been convicted of the crime of seduction, *392and appeals. The indictment, omitting the merely formal parts, is that ‘ ‘ C. S. Carlisle, late of the county aforesaid, on the first day of October, A.D. 1895, at the county aforesaid, did, then and there, unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously entice, seduce and have illicit connection with one Miss Maggie Broom, she being, then and there, a female child of previous chaste character, and under the age of sixteen years, and unmarried.” To this indictment the defendant demurred, and assigned for cause that said indictment ‘ ‘ charged…
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