McKinley v. Commonwealth

The defendant, Vincent Lee McKinley, was indicted in the court below for abduction in violation of § 18.1-36 of the Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended. He was convicted by a jury of abduction “with intent to defile”; his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years; and he was sentenced accordingly by the trial court. McKinley has appealed upon the ground that the court erred in failing to grant his motion to quash the indictment on which he was tried.

The indictment charged that the defendant, on March 21, 1974, “unlawfully and feloniously, by force…