Stark v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Affirming.

The appellant, J. Will Stark, was indicted by the grand jury of Warren county upon the charge of having detained a woman against her will. The jury found appellant guilty of an assault, and fined him $500.00. He appeals, and asks a reversal upon three grounds: (1) that the indictment was insufficient, because it failed to charge *540that the detention’ of the woman was accompanied by force;’(2) that the court erroneously failed to instruct the jury that in order to convict the appellant the detention must have been forcible; and (3) that…