Bass v. Commonwealth

Bernard Ulysses Bass, the defendant, was convicted by a jury of the rape of Evelyn Smith, a female over the age of sixteen years, and his punishment was fixed at five years in the penitentiary. To the final order approving the verdict and imposing the sentence, the defendant was granted a writ of error.

The sole question to be decided is whether the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a report of the Chief Medical Examiner showing that certain “slides” submitted in the name of Evelyn Smith were positive for spermatozoa. The Commonwealth relied upon this report to corroborate the…