Carter v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Henry Carter has been convicted of the crime of unlawfully detaining a woman against her will with intent to have carnal knowledge of her, and his punishment has been fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of three years. He seeks reversal of the judgment on two grounds; (1) He was entitled to a new trial because of newly discovered evidence; and (2) the court failed to give the whole law of the case.

Geneva Moberly, a young woman 24 years of age, arrived at Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, on a bus about midnight August 2, 1947, from Hamilton,…