Razor v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Pulton

Reversing.

This appeal by Tab Razor, a negro, is from a two-year sentence to the penitentiary for detaining a woman against her will with intent to have carnal knowledge of her, the crime denounced by sectioh 1158 of the Kentucky Statutes (now KRS 435.110). The principal ground urged for reversal is that a verdict of not guilty should have been directed because the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law to establish that there was a detention. Several other grounds are relied on but are so completely lacking in merit as to require no mention or…