Kessler v. Commonwealth

JUDGE LINDSAY

delivered the opinion oe the court.

The appellant, John Kessler, and four other persons, were indicted in the same indictment. It is charged that said parties (except the appellant) each successively committed the crime of rape upon the person of a female above the age of twelve years named Albina Rhonick. The specific averment, in substance, is that they each (except appellant) successively, unlawfully, feloniously, and violently made an assault upon her, the said Albina Rhonick, and then and there each forcibly, and against her will and consent, ravished and had carnal knowledge…