Lawrence v. Commonwealth

MONCURE, P.

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the county court of King William, rendered on the 33d day of October, 1877, against the plaintiff in error, Charles Lawrence, in a prosecution for rape. It was charged in the indictment that the said Charles Lawrence, “on the eighth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and in the county aforesaid, with force and arms on and upon one Serena Coleman, a female child under the age of twelve years, to-wit: of the age of eleven years and eleven months, feloniously did make-an assault; and her, the said Serena…