Morgan v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellant, whom we shall call the defendant, .seelcs by this appeal to reverse a judgment imposing upon him five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary for having had sexual intercourse with Grade Ross, a 15 year old girl. The prosecuting witness is a daughter of the defendant’s deceased sister, Minnie Morgan Ross, who died when the prosecuting witness was but a few months old. This child was taken by her grandfather, Reece Morgan, to his home, and was reared there. In that home lived her uncle, the defendant, a bachelor 26 years older…