Legal Opinion
Pepoon v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided October 8, 1951No. Record 3894PublishedCited by 17 opinions
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The question of proof of the corpus delicti is the crux of this case arising out of the alleged commission of the crime of sodomy per os by the accused, Philip W. Pepoon, on the person of Timothy Brown, a three-year-old hoy. The court heard the evidence, without the intervention of a jury, found the accused guilty as charged, aud sentenced him to eighteen months in the penitentiary.
The Commonwealth called four witnesses—Marie T. Brown and Joseph E. Brown, parents of the victim, Police Captain D. M. Franklin, the officer who examined the accused, and Charles F. Barnette, security officer of…
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