Locke v. Commonwealth

Prentis, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The accused, who at the time of the crime charged were eighteen and sixteen years old, respectively, have been convicted of an assault with intent to commit rape upon a young girl, she being then just above the age of fifteen years. The general circumstances of the crime, as shown by the testimony introduced by.the Commonwealth, are, that as this girl was coming home from a business school with a girl friend, the accused, being in an automobile, asked the girls if they wished to be carried home. It was raining at the time, and they accepted the…