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  "id": 1503993,
  "name": "Keaton v. State",
  "name_abbreviation": "Keaton v. State",
  "decision_date": "1904-12-10",
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  "first_page": "265",
  "last_page": "266",
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    "judges": [
      "Hile, J., dissents."
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    "parties": [
      "Keaton v. State."
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      {
        "text": "Battee, J.\nRichard Keaton was indicted for seducing Laura Washington, and was convicted; and h\u00e9 appealed to this court.\nAfter the close of the testimony in the trial in this case the court instructed the jury, and in his charge repeated the statute defining seduction, in which he said: \u201cBut no person shall be convicted of said crime upon the testimony of the female, unless the same be corroborated by other evidence\u2019.\u201d Sand. & H. Dig., \u00a7 1900. Whereupon appellant requested the court to instruct the jury on the question of the corroboration of the testimony of the female .as to the. promise of marriage and intercourse, and the court responded by reading the statute, and saying, \u201cHer testimony must be corroborated by other testimony,\u201d By the request of the appellant the court\u2019s attention was called to the fact that his instruction was too general, and that the jury should be instructed as to the corroboration made necessary by the law as to promise of marriage and unlawful intercourse. In these respects the testimony of Laura Washington, the prosecutrix, should have been corroborated by the testimony of other witnesses. The court erred in failing so to instruct the jury. Polk v. State, 40 Ark. 482, 484.\nAfter the commencement of the prosecution in this case the appellant married the prosecutrix, and the prosecution was suspended. He abandoned her, and the prosecution was renewed. Acts 1899, c 22. He complains because the court did not instruct the jury as to what constituted a cause for divorce. Such an instruction was not necessary. The undisputed evidence shows that he. deserted his wife without cause.\nReverse and remand for a new trial.\nHile, J., dissents.",
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        "author": "Battee, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Scipio A. Jones and W. M. Lewis, for appellant.",
      "George W. Murphy, Attorney General, and F. T. Vaughan, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Keaton v. State.\nOpinion delivered December 10, 1904.\n1. Seduction \u2014 corroboration op prosecution. \u2014 In a prosecution for seduction it was error for the court, when requested, to refuse to instruct the jury specifically that the prosecutrix must be\u2019 corroborated both as to the promise of marriage and the intercourse, although a general charge was given to the effect that her testimony must be corroborated by other testimony. (Page 265.)\n2. Same \u2014 EEEECT op marriage and abandonment. \u2014 Where, after the commencement of a prosecution for seduction, the defendant married the prosecutrix, and then abandoned her, whereupon the prosecution was renewed, he cannot complain because the court did not instruct the jury as to what constituted a cause for divorce, if the undisputed evidence shows that he deserted her without cause, (Page 266.)\nAppeal from Pulaski Circuit Court.\nRobert J. Lea, Judge.\nReversed.\nScipio A. Jones and W. M. Lewis, for appellant.\nGeorge W. Murphy, Attorney General, and F. T. Vaughan, for appellee."
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