Note 723 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

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.