95 Ga. 351 | Ga. | 1895
In the indictment against the defendant the offense was designated specifically as that of seduction. The indictment charged the act of sexal intercourse between the accused and an unmarried woman ; alleged that she, previous thereto, was a virtuous female, and that her consent for the defendant to have carnal knowledge of her person was induced by deceitful means and artful practices and by false and fraudulent means; that the female alleged to have been seduced was of tender years, being only thirteen years of age, and that this defendant, being himself a married man, did then and there represent to her that he loved, her, and did then and there win her confidence and affection; that he represented to her that it would not be wrong to yield to his lustful embraces, and it would not be wrong to allow him to have carnal knowledge of her person, that it would not hurt or injure her character, and that if she would consent to sexual intercourse with him, he would leave his wife and take her; that she being young and inexperienced, having implicit confidence in the defendant, and believing the representations he made to her were true that it would not be wrong, that it would not injure her character, she then and there yielded to his lustful embraces and allowed him to have carnal knowledge of her person. These representations by the defendant were alleged to have been false and fraudulent, and the deceitful means and artful practices resorted to to induce her consent.
To justify a conviction for the offense of seduction, the consent of the female seduced must have been induced, either by persuasion and promises of marriage, or by other false and fraudulent means. It is not insisted in this case that the consent of this female was induced by persuasion and promises of marriage. In order to justify a conviction upon persuasion or solicita