Kayes v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Appellant was indicted and convicted for a violation of section 1155 of the Kentucky Statutes, as amended by chapter 17 of the Acts of 1922; his punishment being fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The only errors relied upon by him for a reversal of the judgment are errors in the instructions and improper remarks by the attorney for the commonwealth in his closing argument to the jury.

The indictment charges that on the-day of -, 1926, and before its finding, the appellant, then over 21 years of age, had carnal knowledge of one Annie May Clark…