Miller v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Affirming.

The appellant has been convicted of the crime of carnally knowing a .female under the age of eighteen years, and sentenced to serve two years in prison. The prosecuting witness resided with her great-aunt across the road from where the appellant lived with his wife and eight children. She testified that after several unsuccessful efforts to persuade her to do wrong, the appellant consummated his desire and had sexual intercourse with her in a blackberry patch one afternoon in July, 1928, and on several other occasions during the following…