Commonwealth v. Morgan

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

Defendant, a practicing physician, was convicted of raping a woman patient in his office. From refusal of his motion for a new trial and the imposition of sentence, he has brought this appeal. The assignments of error are numerous, but the chief burden of his argument is that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the credible evidence. While parts of the testimony of the prosecutrix may upon review appear to be rather farfetched, on final analysis the reasonableness of her testimony was for the jury and, as opposed to the testimony of defendant, we cannot…