League v. Commonwealth

Opinion

COLEMAN, J.

The appellant, Roger Dale League, was convicted by a jury of rape and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. His appeal of the conviction raises three issues, the first two of which involve construction of the “rape-shield” statute, Code § 18.2-67.7. The issues are (1) whether the trial court erred in refusing to allow League to testify about a prior act of consensual sexual intercourse between the prosecutrix and him; (2) whether the court erred in barring League’s testimony about an alleged agreement between the prosecutrix and him that she would allow him sex for…