Jones v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 33. — -PROSECUTION AGAINST CHARLES B. JONES FOR DETAINING A WOMAN AGAINST HER WILL, WITH INTENT TO HAVE CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF -HER. Appeal from Franklin Circuit Court. R. L. Stout, Circuit Judge.
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Case 33. — -PROSECUTION AGAINST CHARLES B. JONES FOR DETAINING A WOMAN AGAINST HER WILL, WITH INTENT TO HAVE CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF -HER. Appeal from Franklin Circuit Court. R. L. Stout, Circuit Judge. Defendant convicted and appeals. 1. The verdict of the jury is contrary to both the law and the evidence, is not sustained by the evidence, and is the: result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury. 2. The court should have peremptorily instructed the jury, at the close of the Commonwealth’s testimony, to find a verdict of not guilty. 3. The attorney! for the Commonwealth; in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Chief Justice Hobson
Affirming.
Appellant Jones was indicted in the Woodford Circuit Court for the offense of unlawfully detaining Miss Lucy Fogg against her will, with intent to have carnal knowledge of her. He was found guilty and his punishment fixed at seven years’ confinement in the penitentiary. The chief question made on the eppeal is that the evidence does not warrant a conviction.
Miss Fogg lives with her father about a quarter of a mile from Puckers Station, on the pike which leads from the Frankfort & Versailles pike to Puckers Station and about a mile from the Frankfort &…
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