Ollis v. State

• Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
• Writing for the Court: BROYLES, C.J.
• Citation: Ollis v. State, 44 Ga.App. 793, 163 S.E. 309 (Ga. App. 1932)
• Decision Date: 17 February 1932
• Docket Number: 22065.
• Parties: OLLIS v. STATE.

163 S.E. 309

44 Ga.App. 793

OLLIS v. STATE.

No. 22065.

Court of Appeals of Georgia, First Division

February 17, 1932

Syllabus by Editorial Staff.

Statute denouncing attempted intercourse with female under fourteen raises presumption of female's nonconsent, and thus supplies force essential to commission of rape (Laws 1918, p 259).

Error from Superior Court, Barrow County; W. W. Stark, Judge.

C. C Ollis brings error.

Affirmed.

George W. Westmoreland, of Jefferson, for plaintiff in error.

J Clifford Pratt, Sol. Gen., of Winder, for the State.

Syllabus OPINION.

BROYLES C.J.

1. Under the act of 1918 (Ga. Laws 1918, p. 259), an attempt to have illicit sexual intercourse with a female under the age of fourteen years constitutes an assault with intent to rape, although the attempt be made without actual force or violence. The act of 1918 raises "a presumption of law that a female under the age of fourteen years will not voluntarily consent to fornication, and by this presumption supplies the force essention to the commission of rape, where the alleged injured female has not attained the age of fourteen years." Holland v. State, 161 Ga. 492, 131 S.E. 503; Suggs v. State, 24 Ga.App. 323, 100 S.E. 778; Todd v. State, 25 Ga.App. 411, 103 S.E. 496.

2. Under the foregoing ruling and the facts of this case, the verdict was amply authorized, and the special grounds of the motion for a new trial (complaining of alleged errors of commission and omission in the charge of the court) are without merit. The refusal to grant a new trial was not error.

Judgment affirmed.

LUKE, J., concurs.

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