Bowen v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Ratlipp

Reversing.

The appellant has appealed from a judgment of the Mercer circuit court sentencing him to the penitentiary for five years under an indictment charging him with carnally knowing a female under the age of 16 years, and he, appellant, being the age of 21 years, as denounced in Section 1155, Subsection 2, Kentucky Statutes. For a reversal of the judgment numerous grounds of error are assigned in the motion and grounds for a new trial and insisted on in brief of appellant, among which is that the court erroneously overruled appellant’s motion to require…