State v. Halbert

Citations

• 14 Wash. 306
• 44 P. 538

Syllabus

<p>EAPE — AGE OF CONSENT — EVIDENCE — CONVERSATIONS IN ABSENCE OF ACCUSED.</p> <p>The age of consent in this state, as respects the crime of rape is twelve years, and not sixteen, since the act of 1885-86, p. 84, attempting to amend Code 1881, §812, by substituting the word “ sixteen” for the word, “twelve” was void for the reason that its object was not expressed in its title. (Hoyt, 0. J., and Dunbar, J., dissent.)</p> <p>Evidence of conversations had between witnesses in the absence of defendant, are incompetent.</p>