Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit December 20, 1948, 9821 (Hall v. United States)

PROCTOR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried in the District Court upon an indictment charging carnal knowledge of a female child of the age of eight years, in violation of Title 22, Section 2801, District of Columbia Code (1940), which reads as follows:

“Whoever has carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her 'will, or carnally knows and abuses a female child under sixteen years of age,