Valentine v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

Appellant, having been convicted of the offense denounced by section 1158 of the statutes, brings this appeal. He relies on but two grounds for reversal. The first of these is that the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence. According to the prosecutrix, who is about 19 years old, she was on her way home in Fulton, Kentucky, from work about 5:30 or 6 o’clock on Tuesday evening, January 13,1925, when she met appellant, who was passing by in his new automobile. She had known the appellant, who is 37 years old and the father of six children,…