Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Appellant was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for five years under an indictment charging him with carnal knowledge of one Ethelda Neace, a female less than 18 years of age (Ky. Stats., sec. 1155. Two witnesses, J ames Embry and wife, testified that the first of July, the wife fixing the day as Sunday, they were walking along a side road leading from Highway No. 71 in Butler County, and saw accused and the stepdaughter lying on the side of the road engaged in the act of sexual intercourse. The time was between three and four o…