Ford v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Everett Alphonsa Ford was convicted of rape, and sentenced to life imprisonment without privilege of parole. KRS 435.090. On this appeal, he contends the court erred (1) in permitting the prosecuting witness to testify that she was a virgin, and (2) in admitting an alleged confession of Ford under a finding that the confession had not been obtained by “sweating” in violation of KRS 422.110.

The prosecuting witness, a white woman, testified that she was raped by Ford and two other Negroes, who seized her near her automobile, which was parked on a city street near her place…