Dotson v. Commonwealth

James Dotson was convicted of statutory rape on a girl alleged to be fifteen years of age and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The errors assigned are confined to the admission and rejection of evidence.

The Commonwealth, over the objections of the accused, introduced a paper, alleged to be signed by Federal officers in West Virginia, stating that Eva Dorine Landreth, prosecutrix, was born in Panther, West Virginia, on June 28, 1921. This paper does not purport to be a copy of statistics taken from the official files of the Bureau of Census in Washington;…