Wagner v. Commonwealth

WADDILL, Commissioner.

Edward A. Wagner, Jr., has appealed from a judgment sentencing him to five years’ imprisonment for detaining a woman against her will with intent to have carnal knowledge of her, KRS 435.110. As grounds for reversal he urges that the court erred: (1) in refusing to grant a continuance; (2) in overruling the motion for a directed verdict of acquittal; (3) in permitting the jury to hear and consider incompetent and prejudicial testimony and (4) in allowing the Commonwealth’s Attorney to make an improper and prejudicial argument to the jury.

At appellant’s arraignment on May…