Addington v. Commonwealth

Clarence Addington has been indicted and convicted of rape and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary. The prosecutrix, Niles McConnell, was more than fifteen but less than sixteen years of age at the time.

There are several assignments of error. Counsel for the accused earnestly contends that the court should have set the verdict aside because it was not sufficiently supported by credible evidence. Only two witnesses, the prosecutrix and her father, testified on behalf of the Commonwealth at the trial, and if the verdict is to be sustained at all it necessarily must be by…