Blankenship v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Willis

Affirming.

Mose Blankenship was convicted of the crime of carnally knowing a female child not his wife, and condemned to serve twenty years in the penitentiary. The indictment charged that defendant was a male over 21 years of age, and that the child was under 12 and over 10 years of age. Upon this appeal it is insisted that error intervened at the trial in the admission of evidence, in failing to instruct the jury upon the whole law of the case, that the evidence does not support the verdict, and in certain other 'respects which will be noticed as the…