Deas v. State

This is an unfortunate case wherein it appeared by the evidence adduced at the trial that plaintiff in error had a number of acts of carnal intercourse with a sixteen-year-old girl, finally resulting in the girls’ pregnancy and the subsequent prosecution and conviction of plaintiff in error for a violation of Chapter 8596, Acts 1921, Section 7552, C. G. L., 5409 R. G. S., denouncing as a felony any act of unlawful carnal intercourse with any unmarried person (male or female) of previous chaste character, who is at the time of such unlawful carnal intercourse under the age of eighteen years.…