State v. Sargent

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Thurston county, entered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of statutory rape.

*693Section 2436, Rem. & Bal. Code, in so far as it applies to this cause, reads as follows:

“Every person who shall carnally know and abuse añy female child under the age of eighteen years, not his wife, shall be punished as follows: . . .

“(3) When such child is fifteen and under eighteen years of age, and of previously chaste character, by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not more than ten years, or by impi’isonment in the county jail for not…