State v. Page

*665The opinion of the court was delivered by

Doster, O. J. :

This is an appeal from á conviction of the offense of what is commonly designated as “statutory rape” ; that is, of carnally knowing a female under eighteen years of age, without force and not against her will. Several claims of error are made : (1) That the court lost jurisdiction to try the case because there had been a continuance of it from one term to the succeeding one when the defendant was not present in court; (2) that a comparison of the testimony given upon the preliminary examination and upon the trial proper showed that the…