Whatley v. State

In May, 1902, in the Circuit Court of Suwannee county, the grand jury duly presented an indictment against the plaintiff in error, charging that he “on the first day of December, A. D. 1901, in the county and State aforesaid, with force and arms, unlawfully did then and *146there have carnal intercourse with an unmarried female under the age of sixteen years, to wit: one Phoebe Stewart, contrary to the statute in such case made and provided.” A trial was had at a subsequent term of the court, resulting in a verdict of guilty- Sentence was imposed which, upon a writ of habeas corpus sued out by…