FORNICATION

Unlawful sexual intercourse between two unrharried persons. H Further if one of the persons be married and th; other not, it is rornication on the part of the latter, though adultery for the former. In some jurisdictions, however, b:, statute, it is adultery on the part of both persons if the woman is married, whether the man is married or not. Banks v. State, 96 I Ala. 78, 11 South. 404; Hood v. State, 56 Ind. 263, 26 Am. Rep. 21; Com. v. Lafferty, 6 Grat. (Va.) 673; People v. Rouse, 2 Mich. N. P. 209; State v. Shear, 51 Wis. 460, 8 N. W. 287; Buchanan v. State, 55 Ala. 154. J [s. 521]