People v. Bernor

The respondent was charged under Act No. 70, Pub. Acts 1895, which provides:

“If any person shall ravish and carnally know any female of the age of sixteen years or more by force and against her will, or shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse any female under the full age of sixteen years, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison; * * * and such carnal knowledge shall be deemed complete upon proof of penetration only.”

The claim of the prosecution was that on the 22d of October, 1896, the respondent had intercourse with Mary Day, a female under 16 .years of age, while the…