McLean v. Commonwealth

Ralph McLean was convicted of statutory rape and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years.

The only error assigned is the refusal of the trial court to sustain a motion for a mistrial, based on the improper and inflammatory argument of the Commonwealth’s attorney.

The testimony for the Commonwealth is that, in the late afternoon of June 17, 1946, Betty Lou Burgess, thirteen and a half years of age, entered a gas and oil station, drank a Coca-Cola, was enticed into the furnace room and there ravished by Ralph McLean, a young man twenty years of age, temporarily employed by his brother, the…