McCall v. Commonwealth

Joseph P. McCall, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was indicted for the rape of Barbara Anne McGee, a female child of the age of nine years. Code, § 18-54. Upon completion of the Commonwealth’s evidence the defendant moved to strike it as insufficient to establish the crime of rape. The motion was overruled and the defendant stood upon this motion and offered no evidence. .The jury found the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment and fixed his punishment at twenty-five years in the penitentiary. A motion to set aside the verdict was overruled, judgment entered, and the…