Griffith v. State

1. The act of July 31, 1918 (Ga. L. 1918, p. 259), providing, . among other things, that any person having sexual intercourse with a female under the age of 14 years shall be guilty of rape, and "that no conviction shall be had for said offense on the unsupported testimony of the female in question,” was intended to apply only to cases where the act of intercourse is accomplished with the actual consent or acquiescence of the female and is to be treated as rape merely because the female is under the age of consent as therein specified. Accordingly, tire statute referred to did not change the…