Harrison v. Commonwealth

*169Leslie Nathaniel Harrison and Richard Linwood Pollard, defendants, were indicted for the crimes of robbery and rape. By consent the defendants’ cases were tried “simultaneously and jointly”. Motions made to strike the Commonwealth’s evidence at the conclusion thereof and again at the conclusion of all of the evidence were overruled. The jury found defendants guilty of both charges contained in the indictments and fixed the punishment of each defendant at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of five years for robbery and ten years for rape. After overruling motions to set aside the…