Rasnake v. Commonwealth

There are a number of assignments of error. The questions presented thereby, so far as deemed material, will be disposed of in their order as stated below.

1. Did the trial court err in admitting in evidence the statement of Maude Owens that the boy Perry Wagner “was screaming and crying” as he came up the road from the place at which he had just met the accused, Rasnake and Bumgardner?

The question must be answered in the negative.

It is urged in behalf of the accused that this testimony ■“left the jury free to assume that this child, who had come from the direction in which petitioners had…