Bruce v. Commonwealth

CLAY, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of rape and was given a life sentence without benefit of parole. A prior conviction of the same offense was set aside because of evidence introduced which had been obtained by an illegal search. Bruce v. Commonwealth, Ky., 418 S.W.2d 645. On this appeal the only claimed errors relate to two items of evidence.

The prosecuting witness positively identified appellant as the man who had forced her into her car at knife point in a parking lot, had her drive him out in the country, committed the act, and returned the car to the parking lot…