Head v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Never sing.

At tlie June, 1916, term of the McCreary circuit court, the grand jury of that county returned into court an indictment against the appellant charging him with the offense of carnally knowing a female under the age of sixteen years, being the offense denounced by section-1155 of the Kentucky Statutes. At the following August term of that court the defendant was placed upon trial under that indictment, to which he entered a plea of not guilty, and after the evidence had been heard, the grand jury of that term returned into court an indictment…