Bowling v. Commonwealth

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Dallas Wayne Bowling and Raymond Woods were indicted jointly and charged with unlawfully having carnal knowledge of Verna Dean Adams, a female over twelve years of age, against her will and without her consent. KRS 435.090. Bowling was convicted on a separate trial and received a sentence of ten years’ confinement in the state reformatory.

The decisive issue on the trial was the question of consent. On appeal, Bowling urges that the evidence as to the circumstances of the commission of the offense was such as to destroy the probative value of the evidence given by the…