Williams v. State

Long, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error here, defendant in the lower court, was convicted upon an indictment charging him with the offense of carnal intercourse with unmarried female under the age of eighteen years.

The essential elements of this crime are, First, carnal intercourse; Second, the female must have been under the age of eighteen years; Third, she must have been umnar ried at the time of the carnal intercourse; Fourth, she must be of previous chaste character.

The assignments of error are directed to the proof to sustain three of these essential elements of the offense, viz:…