Garr v. Commonwealth

DAVIS, Commissioner.

Clarence Coleman Garr was tried and found guilty by a jury of the offenses of murder, rape, and burglary. The jury fixed punishment on the murder charge at imprisonment for life, on the rape charge at life imprisonment without privilege of parole, and on the burglary charge at imprisonment for ten years, which latter sentence the trial court directed should be served concurrently with the two life sentences.

Josephine Botts, an 'unmarried lady approximately sixty-five’-to seventy years of age, was the victim .of the felonies for which appellant was convicted. There was no…