State v. Dacke

Citations

• 59 Wash. 238
• 109 P. 1050
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1176

Syllabus

<p>Rape — Statutes—“Pbevious Chaste Chabacteb” — Defenses. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2436, making it rape to carnally know a female child between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years and of “previous chaste character,” there can be no conviction for an offense committed on a certain date where for months prior thereto the parties had continued sexual relations, without any intervening reformation; and it is immaterial that the prosecutrix was chaste except as to the defendant, “previous chaste character” meaning sexual purity.</p>