Hansel v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Charley Hansel appeals from a judgment of five years’ imprisonment upon conviction of carnally knowing a female under sixteen years of age. Section 1155, Ky. Stats., as amended by Acts 1930, c. 18.

The record discloses that the girl, a few days after her sixteenth birthday, in April, 1934, gave birth to a child. A doctor was not called until a week or more later, and he found her suffering with puerperal septicemia or, in the vernacular, bed fever arising from child birth.

To her father and other witnesses, the girl stated that she was…