Hambrick v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Harris

Affirming.

The appellant was convicted and sentenced to death under an indictment charging him with aiding and abetting Carl Fox in the perpetration of a rape upon Miss Myrtle Barnes.

On the night of August 22-23, 1943, Miss Barnes, who was 16 years of age at the time, was in company with her young gentleman friend, Stanley Fryman, in one of the city parks at Newport, when the following occurred, according to her testimony:

‘ ‘ Q. While you were sitting there talking, what happened, if anything? A. There were four colored men came across the road and came to…