Johnson v. Commonwealth

Clinton Johnson, colored, is charged with rape. He was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to twenty years confinement in the State penitentiary. That judgment is now before us for review on a writ of error.

The prosecuting witness is a young white woman about twenty years old. She had come to Hampton seeking employment and was working at Langley Field when assaulted. '

On the morning of February 18, 1944, at about half-past five, she stood at a bus stop on her way to work and was there accosted by the defendant, who was wearing a make-shift mask and, at the point of a gun (it was probably…