Procedure.
Present the matter to the county attorney of the county in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
TEXAS.
"Abduction" is the false imprisonment of a woman with intent to force her into a marriage or for the purpose of prostitution.
Article 629, Ch. 6. Revised Statutes of Texas, 1896.
If a female under the age of fourteen be taken for the purpose of marriage or prostitution from her parent, guardian or other person having the legal charge of her, it is abduction, whether she consent or not, and although a marriage afterward takes place between the parties.
Section 630. Id.
The offense of abduction is complete if the female be detained as long as twelve hours, although she may afterwards be relieved from such detention without marriage or prostitution.
Section 631. Id.
Any person who shall be guilty of abduction shall be punished by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars. If by reason of such abduction a woman be forced into marriage, the punishment shall be confinement in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years; and if by reason of such abduction a woman be prostituted, the punishment shall be confinement in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than twenty years.