[723] Ohio raised the age from ten to fourteen in 1887, and advanced it to sixteen by the act of March 3, 1896: Acts (1875), 93 (age made ten years); ibid. (1887), 65; ibid. (1896), 54: Bates's Ann. Stat. (1897), II, 3144, 3145: rape if the boy is over eighteen; penalty, three to twenty years in prison; lowered by Acts (1902), 344, to one to twenty years, "or 6 months in the county jail or workhouse at the discretion of the court, which is hereby authorized to hear testimony in mitigation or aggravation of sentence." Cf. Bates, Ann. Rev. Stat. (1903), III, 3307-8.
[724] Compare Stat. and Amend. to Codes (1889), 223, and ibid. (1897), 201: penalty, not less than five years in prison.
[725] Laws of Alaska (1900), 4.
[726] Pub. Laws of Pa. (1887), 128; Pepper and Lewis, Digest (1896), I, 1318, 1319: penalty, when the woman child is between ten and sixteen, fine not exceeding $1,000 and imprisonment not exceeding fifteen years, if she "was of good repute;" below ten, without this condition. Thus there is no sure protection beyond ten. No conviction when boy is under sixteen.
[727] Laws of N. J. (1887), 230; Gen. Stat. (1896), I, 1096: penalty, not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment at hard labor not more than fifteen years, or both. There is also an abduction law to protect a female under fifteen: Gen. Stat. (1896), I, 1064. The age is ten in Rev. Stat. (1874), 148.
[728] Raised from thirteen; Acts of Ia. (1896), 71; Ann. Code (1897), 1888: penalty, imprisonment for life or any term of years.
[729] Laws of Ill. (1887), 171; Hurd's Rev. Stat. (1901), 634: penalty, when male is above sixteen, imprisonment for life or not less than one year.
[730] Raised from twelve: Stat. of Nev. (1889), 74; Comp. Laws (1900), 914, 915: rape when the boy is fifteen or more; penalty, imprisonment for life or not less than five years.
[731] Raised from twelve: Acts of Ind. (1893), 22; Burns's Ann. Stat. (1901), I, 790: penalty, one to twenty-one years in prison.
[732] Raised from twelve: Laws of Wis. (1895), c. 370, sec. 1; Wis. Stat. (1898), 2668: penalty, five to thirty-five years in prison.