Morris v. Commonwealth

MILLIKEN, Judge.

A jury found the appellants, two married men, Roy El. Ballentine'and Thomas Morris, guilty of the rape of a nineteen-year-old girl, and fixed their sentences at ten years, the minimum under KRS 435.090. They appeal, alleging that the verdict was not supported by the evidence, that the jury should have been discharged because of an outburst by the girl’s father during the trial, and that the testimony of certain character witnesses was not relevant to the issue.

The prosecutrix, Nancy Jean Thorn, alleged that she was raped by the appellants and one other man whom she did not…