State v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Lyon District Court. The following indictment (omitting caption and indorsements) was filed in the district court of Lyon county, September 13, 1887: “At the September term of said court, 1887, the jurors of the grand jury of said county, duly impaneled and sworn and charged to inquire and true presentment make of all public offenses against the laws of the state of Kansas, cognizable by said court, committed or triable within said county, oh their oaths do find…
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Appeal from Lyon District Court. The following indictment (omitting caption and indorsements) was filed in the district court of Lyon county, September 13, 1887: “At the September term of said court, 1887, the jurors of the grand jury of said county, duly impaneled and sworn and charged to inquire and true presentment make of all public offenses against the laws of the state of Kansas, cognizable by said court, committed or triable within said county, oh their oaths do find and present, that on the 21st day of August, 1887, in the county of Lyon and state of Kansas, J. H. Crawford, then and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for rape. Prior to the session of the legislature of 1887, the statute declared that—
*259“Every person who shall be convicted of rape, either by carnally and unlawfully knowing any female child under the age of ten years, or by forcibly ravishing any woman of the age of ten years or upwards, shall be punished by confinement and hard labor not less than five years nor more than twenty-one years.” (Comp. Laws of 1885, ch. 31, §31.)
In 1887 the age of consent was raised from ten to eighteen years, and…
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