Ellison v. Commonwealth

Opinion op ti-ib Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming.

In 1920 appellant, a young man then about twenty-one years óf age, moved with his father’s family from Tennessee to a farm on Watts creek in Whitley county.

There lived in the vicinity a family of Bennetts, and the yonngest danghter of that family was Melda Bennett, then abont nineteen or twenty years of age.

Shortly after the arrival of the Ellison family a friendship sprang np between appellant and Melda Bennett, and that friendship speedily developed into an ardent courtship, and the evidence seems to justify the conclusion that the…