Kitchen v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellant was indicted for carnally knowing a girl over 12 and. under 16 years of age against her will and consent. Upon trial he was convicted of detaining a woman against her will and his punishment fixed at three years confinement in the penitentiary. His alleged victim was Virginia Mayo, a girl lacking about three months of being 13 years of age at the time of the alleged crime, and the defendant was then a man about 60 years of age. He prosecutes this appeal, assigning eight errors made by the trial court as follows:(1) The verdict was…