As Amended
SEC. 97-5-21. Seduction of child under age eighteen.
Any person who shall seduce and have illicit connection with any child younger than such person and under the age of eighteen (18) years, and which child is of previously chaste character, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than ten (10) years, but the testimony of the person seduced alone shall not be sufficient for conviction.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 59; 1871, Sec. 2530; 1880, Sec. 2754; 1892, Sec. 1004; 1906, Sec. 1081; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 808; 1930, Sec. 828; 1942, Sec. 2054; Laws, 1980, ch. 392; 1985, ch. 389, Sec. 2, eff from and after July 1, 1985.