Rice v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lackawanna county: Of July Term 1882, No. 230. Indictment of Frederick Rice, for the seduction, under an alleged promise of marriage, of Margaret Robertson, under twenty-one years of age. At the first trial of the case a verdict of guilty was entered, and the judgment thereon was reversed on writ of error, and the record remanded for further proceedings.
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lackawanna county: Of July Term 1882, No. 230. Indictment of Frederick Rice, for the seduction, under an alleged promise of marriage, of Margaret Robertson, under twenty-one years of age. At the first trial of the case a verdict of guilty was entered, and the judgment thereon was reversed on writ of error, and the record remanded for further proceedings. At the second trial, before Handley, P. J., the testimony in the case was substantially the same as that in the former case, reported in 4 Outerbridge 28, to which reference is here made. The new…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
When this case was here upon a former .writ of error we said pointedly that “ the mere evidence of his (plaintiff’s) attentions was not sufficient to carry the caseto the jury.” In other words, they were not such attentions as would justify a jury in presuming a promise of marriage, or would amount to such corroboration of the prosecutrix as the Act of Assembly requires in cases of seduction. Upon a state of facts in no essential features differing from those of the former trial, the learned judge below charged the jury (see 7th assignment): “ But there is evidence of social attention of…
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