Commonwealth v. Stewart

Opinion- by

Gawthrop, J.,

Appellant was tried and convicted in the court of oyer and terminer of Allegheny County on charges of rape, assault and battery with intent to commit rape, and adultery. His motion for a new trial being refused, he was sentenced on each indictment to undergo imprisonment in the Allegheny County Work House, the sentences to run concurrently.

The material facts are as follows: Janet Knight and Isabelle Stuart, aged sixteen and seventeen years respectively, and residing at Defiance, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, decided to make a trip by hitch-hiking to Cleveland, Ohio. On…