State v. Phillips

Defendant appealed from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The indictment accused defendant with having taken indecent liberties with a boy 15 years of age.

G-. S. 1923, § 10132, defines the crime of taking indecent liberties with females and fixes the age of consent at 14 years. The legislature, by L. 1927, p. 546, c. 394, undertook to raise the age of consent to 16 years and to make the statute applicable to males as well as females. The act of 1927, in so far as it relates to the change of age of consent, is unconstitutional, because that subject was not expressed in the title…