McCreary v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

Appellant, a man fifty years of age, was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Barren Circuit Court charged with having carnal knowledge of a female under sixteen years of age, under the provisions of section 1155 of the Kentucky Statutes, which are as follows:

“Whosoever shall carnally know a female under the age of sixteen years, or an idiot, shall he confined in the *613penitentiary not less than ten nor more than twenty years. ’ ’

The evidence disclosed that in August, 1909, the defendant, together with his married daughter, went to: Louisville with…