Commonwealth v. Jackson

Neely, J.,

Defendants were tried on three separate indictments charging them *201with rape. The cases were consolidated at the trial and they were all convicted by a jury. The matter is before us on the motions of these defendants for a new trial and in arrest of judgment. In the motion for new trial it is alleged, inter alia, that the verdict is against the evidence and is against the law. And in the motion in arrest of judgment it is contended that the court erred in overruling defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the close of the Commonwealth’s testimony, and “in failing to find the…