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117 Miss. 792

Glover v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1918

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1918-03-15

Hon. Paul B. JohNSok, Judge. Tom Glov.er was convicted of seduction and appeals.. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Appellant submits that his motion for a peremptory-instruction should have been sustained.

Relies on Ferguson v. State · Long v. State · Carter v. State

Decided 1918-03-15

Sykes, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The appellant, Tom Glover, was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Forrest county of the •crime of seduction. From the judgment of that court 'this appeal is prosecuted.

¶3*795Without stating the facts in the case, it is sufficient to say that the testimony of the prosecutrix as to her previous chaste character, the promise of marriage of her by the. defendant, and the act of seduction were in no way corroborated by any other testimony in the case. Section 1372 of the Code of 1906 (section 1108, Hemingway’s Code). Long v. State, 100 Miss. 7, 56 So. 185, Lewis v. State, 111 Miss. 833, 72 So. 241, Ferguson v. State, 71 Miss. 805, 15 So. 66, 42 Am. St. Rep. 492, and Carter v. State, 99 Miss. 206, 54 So. 805, have all held that this testimony .of the prosecutrix must be otherwise corrobated.

¶4The' judgment of the lower court is reversed, and the prisoner discharged.

¶5Reversed.

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