Hatton v. State

Citations

• 95 Miss. 546
• 49 So. 514

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law and Procedure. Seduction. Female child under eighteen years of age. Code 1906, § 1081.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, § 1081, making it a felony to seduce and have illicit connection with, any female child under eighteen years of age, of previous chaste character, a conviction cannot he maintained in the absence of evidence showing that defendant seduced the child; proof of illicit connection alone is insufficient.</p> <p>2. Same. Soliciting and accepting is not seducing.</p> <p>A woman was not seduced, where she yielded her person to and had sexual intercourse with a man merely on his request, accompanied hy assurances of love and that nohody hut them would ever know of it.</p>