George v. State

The defendant was charged with the crime of rape under the second division of section 12 of the Criminal Code, which provides, in substance, that if any male person of the age of eighteen years or upwards shall carnally know or abuse any female child under the age of eighteen years, with her consent, unless such female child so known and abused is over fifteen years of age, and previously unchaste, shall be deemed guilty of rape. The charging part of the information was that the plaintiff in error, “a male person over the age of eighteen years, on the 30th day of May, A. D. 1900, in the…