Grinnelle v. Commonwealth

Leon Grinnelle was tried and convicted in the Circuit *916Court of Mathews county of raping Miss P. and sentenced to serve fourteen years in the penitentiary.

There are three assignments of error; but in the view we take of the case the only assignment of error that need be considered is that the court erred in refusing to set aside the verdict of the jury because the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict.

The evidence presents the story of a young man of a type that is a menace to any community, and of a girl of seventeen years, who, on the night here in question, as a result of an…