Sells v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

— Reversing.

The appellant, Mitchell Sells, has been convicted of the crime of detaining a woman against her will, and sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years. The single ground urged for a reversal of the judgment is that the verdict is palpably against the evidence.

The only witnesses introduced by the commonwealth were Lydia Cooper, the prosecutrix, and Mrs. Della Cooper, her mother. The testimony of the latter is not important. The prosecutrix, who was twenty-two years of age at the time of the trial in April, 1937,…