Thomas v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error was indicted for rape. Upon his trial the jury found him guilty, fixed his punishment at death, and the trial court entered judgment in accordance with the verdict. To that judgment this writ of error was awarded.

Several grounds of error are relied on in the petition and in the written and oral argument of counsel for the accused, but the record does not show that any exception was taken to the rulings of the trial court, except its refusal to set the verdict aside because contrary to the law and the evidence, and its overruling the motion of the accused in arrest of…