Hayton v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal by Ralph Hayton is from conviction of rape.

The Commonwealth proved that on a night in September, 1958, the defendant had been visiting several taverns and, having seen the husband of Mrs. Frances Edwards at one of the places, he, with his friend Tom *538Isom, drove to the village of McCarr, where Edwards lived. He left his car about a hundred yards from the residence and about midnight entered the house through a window and raped Mrs. Edwards. She testified she was awakened and Hayton was standing at the foot of her bed. She began screaming, and he put a pillow…