Ingram v. Commonwealth

Alphonso Ingram, plaintiff in error, a young Negro man twenty years of age, has been convicted of an attempted rape, and sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary in accordance with the verdict of a jury. Section 8-491, Code of Virginia, 1950.

He asks us to reverse the judgment against him on the sole ground that the evidence was insufficient to justify the jury in finding that he attacked the prosecutrix with the intent to commit rape. His assignments of error relating to the refusal of the trial court to give certain instructions were abandoned at the bar of this court.

The evidence of…