Carroll v. State

Citations

• 74 Miss. 688

Syllabus

<p>1. Seduction. Reputation. Chastity. Code 1893, 1298.</p> <p>Actual chastity, and not the mere reputation of chastity, constitutes a female the subject of seduction.</p> <p>2. Same. Evidence.</p> <p>It is competent, as one of the elements of proof of actual chastity, to show that the woman had the reputation of being chaste.</p> <p>3. Witness. Prosecutrix. Contradiction.</p> <p>If a question be asked a prosecutrix in seduction whether she had made a certain declaration, and the witness answers, notwithstanding an objection sustained to the question, denying the declaration, and the answer is not excluded, evidence contradicting such answer is admissible.</p>