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Ware v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided May 7, 1976PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PALMORE, Justice.

On a Saturday night in November of 1971 three young women named Dorothy Mason, Marlene Mason and Katheryn Mason got into an automobile with three young men named Clarence Saylor, Raymond Dick and Ronnie Dick and were taken to the home of Delmer Lee (Jimmie) Ware in Pulaski County. According to the evidence for the prosecution, the girls were forced into the car by Saylor at the point of a shotgun and were unwilling participants in the subsequent events leading to the indictment of Ware, Saylor and Raymond Dick 1 for forcible rape. 2 Other counts in the indictments charged…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Cotton v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1970
  2. Rigsby v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1973
  3. Maye v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1965
  4. Hoskins v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1964
  5. Messmear v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1971

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3Cited by47 opinions

  1. People v. HardyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1992
  2. James v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  3. Commonwealth v. ChesterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1991
  4. Brown v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2010
  5. Ratliff v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2006

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