Baugh v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant, Forest Baugh, was convicted in the Muhlenberg circuit court of the offense denounced in section 1214 in the 1930 edition of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes — i. e., seducing a woman under 21 years of age under promise of marriage — and the verdict punished him by confinement in the penitentiary for one year. On this appeal his counsel argues as grounds for a reversal: (1) Incompetent evidence introduced by the commonwealth over defendant’s objection; (2) insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict and for which reason…