Chap. 611.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the code of Virginia
in reference to rape and its punishment.

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion three thousand six hundred and eighty of the code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as folluws:

§ 3680. Rape: carnal knowledge of child under fourteen years of
age or a lunatic, or a pupil in any deaf, dumb or blind institution ;
how punished.—If any person carnally Knows a female at fourteen
years or more against her will, by force or carnally know a female
child under that age or a female inmate of any lunatic asylum, who
has been adjudged a lunatic, or any female who is an inmate of a
deaf, dumb or blind institution who is a pupil therein, he shall, in
the discretion of the jury, be punished with death, or confined in
the penitentiary not less than five nor more than twenty years.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.