98 Iowa 662 | Iowa | 1896
VI. It is contended that the court should have sustained a motion filed by the defendant to instruct the jury to return a verdict in his favor, and should have set aside the verdict because the evidence was not sufficient to sustain a conviction. As is common in such cases, the evidence was conflicting; but facts necessary to constitute the crime of seduction were testified to by the prosecutrix, and there was sufficient corroboration to sustain the verdict. It Is true the evidence tends to show that she yielded somewhat readily to the solicitations of the defendant, and there was evidence of courtship and a promise of marriage, .and that the prosecutrix yielded in consequence of that promise. The objections to the evidence made by the defendant on this branch of the case go to its value, and do not show that any essential evidence is lacking.