McEwen v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of statutory rape, as defined by chapter 171, Laws of 1914 (Hemingway’s Code, section 1093). The indictment contains two counts: The first was drawn under section 1358, Code of 1906 (Hemingway’s Code, section 1092), and charges that the prosecutrix was .forcibly ravished by the appellant. The second was drawn under chapter 171, Laws 1914 (Hemingway’s Code, section 1093), which provides:

“That any male person who shall have carnal knowledge of any unmarried female person of previously chaste character younger than himself, and over twelve and under eighteen…