McCreary v. Commonwealth

*208Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

The appellant, Dr. J. C. McCreary, wlm was a physician residing at Cave City, in Barren County, Kentucky, and a man about fifty years of age, was indicted at the July term, 1913, of the Barren Circuit Court, and charged with the offense of carnally knowing a female under the age of sixteen years, which is denounced by the provisions of Section 1155 of the Kentucky Statutes. This statute is as follows:

“Whoever shall unlawfully carnally know a female under the age of sixteen years, or an'idiot, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than ten…