Majors v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Siler

Affirming..

Alva Majors, the appellant, was adjudged guilty of' detaining with carnal intent and against her will one Irene Majors, his own daughter. The punishment was-fixed at seven years in the penitentiary. He appeals..

As grouds of reversal, Majors asserts that (1) evidence relating to other offenses was admitted upon this-trial and that (2) improper argument of the Commonwealth’s Attorney to the jury was permitted.

Majors, a poor and unlettered coal miner, lived in a small house in a mining town with his two motherless-daughters. The older daughter was…