McDowell v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant, William McDowell, upon his trial under an indictment charging him with the offense of detaining a woman as denounced by section 1158 of our present statutes and with the intention on his part to himself commit the act therein forbidden, was convicted in the McCracken circuit court.

The prosecutrix was Mrs. Laura Miles, a white woman as we gather from the evidence, while the defendant is a colored man. Mrs. Miles was then and had been for a considerable time a waitress at the Palmer House, the leading hotel in the city of Paducah,…