Woodward v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Reversing.

Bill Woodward has been convicted in the Lee circuit court of the crime of detaining a woman against her will with the intention to have carnal knowledge of her. By this appeal he is urging as grounds for reversal that the lower court erred in overruling his motion for a peremptory instruction and in admitting .incompetent and prejudicial evidence.

Appellant and Sam Racner, husband of the prose-cutrix, were tenants on adjoining farms, and on the •day the offense is alleged to. have been committed appellant went to the Racner home to get some…