43 Iowa 159 | Iowa | 1876
The defendant had been arrested and, upon a preliminary examination before a magistrate, held to bail to answer for the crime of seducing Isabel Nicholson, an unmarried woman who was enceinte at the time by him. At the close of the examination, after he had been required to give bail, he proposed to the woman to marry her. Her friends, it appears, interposed objections to the marriage on the ground that it was proposed by him for the purpose of escaping from the punishment for his crime and not in good faith; that after the marriage, which would bar further prosecution (Code, 8668), he would desert her and refuse to support her and the child of which she was enceinte. Either to overcome these objections or to obtain the consent of the woman to the proposed marriage, the defendant executed the writing, with the sureties whose names are attached thereto.
' No other questions are presented'in the case. The judgment of the Circuit Court'is
Affirmed.