Slocum v. People

Citations

• 90 Ill. 274

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal law—abduction—enticing female for prostitution. Under the statute making it an offense punishable in the penitentiary to entice or take away an unmarried female of a chaste life and conversation from her parents house, or wherever she may be found, for the purpose of prostitution or concubinage, or to assist in such abduction, it is sufficient to constitute the crime that a girl living with her parents is induced, by persuasion or enticements, to go to some convenient place from her father’s house, in the immediate neighborhood, for the purpose of prostitution, where she is gone only for an hour or two at a time, she continuing to dwell with her parents all the time.</p> <p>2. Enticing or taking away a female from the parents’ house for the purpose of prostitution is clearly within the language of the statute, be that taking or enticing to a place distant or neár, or be it for a long or a short space of time. The gist of the offense is the taking or enticing away from the parents’ house.</p> <p>3. Where a young woman living with her parents is induced or enticed by a man to leave home and meet him for a few hours, and have illicit intercourse with him, within a few rods of her home, after which she returns to her parents’ house, as usual, the case is clearly not within the scope of the statute, as it lacks the necessary ingredient of • the offense—of an intention to reduce the female to a condition of either common prostitution or concubinage.</p> <p>4. Same—kind of inducements to persuade not material. The kind and extent of seductive arts which will satisfy the law in such case do not depend upon any absolute rule. If the inducements held out do, as a matter of fact, entice a young woman from her parents’ house, then both the letter and spirit of the statute are met, so far as the taking or enticing is involved.</p> <p>5. Same—purpose of enticing away. It seems the enticing of- a female from her parents’ house solely for the purpose of having illici