Stump v. Commonwealth

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The indictment in this case charged “that Charles Stump, on the........................day of April, 1921, in the county aforesaid, with force and arms, in and upon one Violet Annie Short, a female child under the age of *806fifteen years, to-wit, the age of................................years, feloniously did make an assault, and her the said Violet Annie Short, then and there, to-wit, on the day and year aforesaid, unlawfully and feloniously did carnally know and abuse.”

The jury found the defendant “guilty as charged in the within indictment,”…