Suggs v. State

1. One charged with the crime of rape by having sexual or carnal knowledge of a female child under the age of fourteen years may, if the evidence authorizes, be convicted of the offense of assault with intent to rape.

(а) The girl alleged to have been raped in this case being thirteen years of age, and the evidence only authorizing and the State only asking a conviction of assault with intent to rape, it was not error for the court to give in charge to the jury the act of the legislature (Ga. L. 1918, p, 259) which fixes the age at which female children may consent to acts of sexual…