Grogan v. State

The appellant was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Leake county, under chapter 171, Laws of 1914 (Hemingway’s 1927 Code, section 1148), of the rape of Eva Wooten, and was sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary. From that judgment, appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The statute under which appellant was indicted is in this language:

“Any male person who shall have carnal knowledge of any unmarried female person of previously chaste char acter younger than himself, and over twelve and under eighteen years of age, upon conviction, shall be punished either by…