Woods v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Affirming.

The appellant,- Ernest Woods, was indicted for carnally knowing a female child, not his wife, under the age of eighteen years, and on his trial was convicted and sentenced to a term of three years in the state penitentiary.

He seeks a reversal of the .judgment because, as he insists, the trial court erred (1) in overruling his demurrer to the indictment; (2) in refusing to grant him a continuance; (3) in admitting incompetent evidence; and (4) in refusing to permit him to read all the evidence embraced in an affidavit for a continuance.

The…