Waitt v. Commonwealth

A grand jury of the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, on October 5, 1964, returned an indictment against the apellant, Robert W. Waitt, Jr., herein referred to as defendant, charging him with the rape of Janet Lorraine Campbell, an infant fourteen years old. Code § 18.1-44. 1

On his trial a jury found him guilty and fixed punishment at five years in the penitentiary. He was sentenced accordingly and we granted a writ of error. Among other assignments of error he here alleges that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and the evidence.

The defendant, who was forty-four years old…