Branham v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Settle

Reversing.

The appellant, Sylvan Branham, was indicted for and tried and convicted in the Pike circuit court of the crime of unlawfully and feloniously detaining Leora Logan,, a female, against her will, “with intent to have carnal knowledge with her himself,” and his punishment fixed hy verdict of the jury and judgment of the court at confinement in the. penitentiary for the period of two years. He has appealed. •

Only one of the several grounds filed in support of his motion for a new trial, made and overruled in the court below, is urged hy the-…