Ballard v. Commonwealth

Prentis, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

J. G. Ballard, a man ñfty-six years of age, has been convicted of attempted rape upon Isabelle Harlow, an infant just above the age of fourteen years, and sentenced to four years confinement in the penitentiary. The facts which we deem necessary to recite will appear in the course of this opinion.

One of the errors assigned by the accused is that the court should have required the clerk, in the charge to *379the jury, to refer to all the possible verdicts which could be found under the indictment.

The bill of exceptions shows the precise charge to have…