McCann v. Commonwealth

Plaintiff in error, John Henry McCann, was tried by a jury upon an indictment charging him with an attempt to rape Jean Walker, an infant under the age of eight years. He was found guilty and his punishment fixed at death. In accordance with the verdict of the jury, the trial court sentenced him to be electrocuted as provided by statute.

The case presented by the Commonwealth is as follows: On the 13th day of February, 1939, between six and six-thirty, P. M., Jean Walker, the victim of the attack, and a younger girl were playing on the front steps of a church in the vicinity of Jean Walker’s…