Newsom v. Commonwealth

ObiNioN of the Court' by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellant was indicted for unlawfully carnally knowing Ida Rule, an infant female under the age of sixteen years. The indictment was returned at the March term of the Graves Circuit Court' in 1911, and charged in the usual form that the appellant in the county of Graves, in March, -1911, and before the finding df the indictment, did unlawfully and carnally know Ida Rule, a female under the age of sixteen years. ' In Juné, 1911, he was tried under this indictment, found guilty, and sentenced to a term of eleven years in the State penitentiary.…