160 Ga. 545 | Ga. | 1925
Marion Davis, the plaintiff in error, was convicted in DeKalb superior court of the crime of seduction, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, into which he was after-wards received, being confined since that time in the convict camp of DeKalb County by the warden. Before the expiration of his sentence he brought a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in which he contends that there is no crime of seduction under the laws of Georgia; that section 378 of the Penal Code, which makes seduction a felony, is unconstitutional and void, being violative of article 3, section 7, paragraph 8, of the constitution of the State of Georgia, as embodied in the Civil Code, § 6437, which provides that “No law or ordinance shall pass which refers to more than one subject-matter, or contains matter different from what is expressed in the title thereof.” Upon hearing, the court denied the prayers of the petition.
We will not take up the history of section 378 of the Penal Code,
Judgment affirmed.