Carroll v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Fulton

Reversing.

The appellant, Almon Carroll, was tried in the year 1938 on an indictment returned in March 1935, charging him with the rape of Christine Segó. He was convicted of the included felony of having carnal knowledge of a female under twelve years of age in violation of sec. 1155 of Carroll’s Ky. Stats., now KRS 435.100. Trial orders and judgment sentencing the appellant to the penitentiary for twenty years were entered on the order book during the term at which the appellant was tried, but were not signed by the then presiding judge but were…