Chesterfield v. State

This was a prosecution by the state against the appellant, in which he was charged by affidavit with the crime of rape upon a female child under the age of sixteen years.

The charging part of the affidavit alleges that the appellant “did then and there at and in said county and state, unlawfully and feloniously make an assault in and upon one Grace Shultz then and there being a female child under the age of sixteen years, to wit: thirteen years of age, and did then and there feloniously and unlawfully ravish and carnally know her, contrary,” etc.

To this affidavit the appellant pleaded not…