Williams v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Affirming.

Section 1155 of Baldwin’s 1936 Revision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes creates different grades of crimes committed by the participating parties for engaging in mutual sexual intercourse, even with the consent of the female. Subsection (2) of that section prescribes: “When such child is of the age of twelve years and' under the age of sixteen years,” the offending male shall be punished by “imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than five years nor more than twenty years.”

The grand jury of Owen county indicted the appel lant,…