Penman v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

A jury found appellant, a man about thirty-five years of age, guilty of the crime of rape committed upon a child under the age of twelve years, and fixed his punishment at death. From the judgment upon this verdict he prosecutes this appeal, and assigns as the chief grounds for a reversal the failure of the court to grant a continu*661anee and a change of venue, but also insisting that the call for the special term and the trial were irregular. It is not necessary to the proper understanding of the grounds relied upon for.reversal that we should…