Commonwealth v. Landis
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 44. — PROSECUTION AGAINST J. C. LANDIS FOR RAPE. —September 24. Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. M. L. Jarvis, Circuit Judge. Defendant having been convicted, was granted a new trial, and the Commonwealth appeals. —
1Opinion of the Court
-Opinion of the Court by
Judge Lassing.
Appellee was indicted, charged with the offense of carnally knowing a female nnder the age of 16 years. The indictment is as follows: “The grand jnry of *446Pulaski county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse J. C. Landis of the crime of carnally knowing a female under the age of sixteen years, committed in the manner and form as follows, viz.: The said Landis on the last day' of May, 1908, before the finding of this indictment and in the county and State aforesaid, did unlawfully carnally know Esther Miller, who was then…
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