Mann v. Commonwealth

Robert Edwin Mann, hereafter called the accused, was found guilty of statutory rape upon Mary Maxine Bowman, an infant under the age of sixteen years, and, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, was sentenced to five years in the State penitentiary. The verdict was accompanied by a -written recommendation, signed by each member of the jury, that the sentence be suspended. This recommendation the trial judge ignored. In this ■court it was argued that the court below erred in refusing to strike the Commonwealth’s evidence, in refusing -to set aside the verdict of the jury, and in failing…