King v. Commonwealth

Plaintiff in error was indicted and tried for rape committed upon Mable Turner, a female between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years.

The indictment contains two counts. The first count charges rape under the statute, without force. The second count charges rape by force. The accused was found guilty by the jury under the first count of the indictment, and, in accordance with the verdict, was sentenced by the court to confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

*852The prosecutrix testified that she was a student in Blair Junior High School in the city of Norfolk, Virginia; that she saw the…