Nerren v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Ratliff

Affirming.

The appellant has appealed from a judgment of the Pulton circuit court convicting him of the crime of detaining a woman against her will and sentencing him to two years in the penitentiary.

The sole ground insisted on for reversal of the judgment is that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a eonviciton.

The prosecuting witness, Miss Dorothy McCormick, but later married and now Dorothy McCormick Abernathy, testified that on the night of July 20, 1935, she slept on a pallet in the living room which was the front room of her father’s home…