Spangler v. Commonwealth

Fred M. Spangler pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with seducing a young woman twenty-one years of age. He, “with the consent and concurrence of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, and of the court, entered of record,” was tried by the court without a jury, found guilty, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Spangler assigns two errors: (1) the refusal of the court, on the conclusion of the introduction of the evidence for the Commonwealth, to sustain his motion to strike; and .(2) the refusal of the court, after the introduction of all the evidence, to find…