Bailey v. Commonwealth

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellant, Ernest Bailey, was tried separately from his brother, Wesley Bailey, on the charge of raping Mrs. Lottie Adkins. See Wesley Bailey v. Commonwealth, 311 Ky., 483, 224 S. W. 2d 680, an opinion delivered today. He was sentenced to imprisonment for seven years under an instruction authorizing conviction of aiding and abetting Wesley Bailey in the commission of the crime of detaining a woman against her will for the purpose of having carnal knowledge of her.

It is necessary only to add to the recitation of facts in the other opinion that the victim…