Weinel v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

—Reversing.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of rape, allegedly committed upon Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, in her apartment in Latonia on the morning of January 9, 1946. He was sentenced to confinement in the State Reformatory for a period of ten years. Two errors are assigned for reversal: (1) The Court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a directed verdict of acquittal; and (2) the Court erred in admitting a verbal confession allegedly made at police headquarters in the presence of seven or eight officers.

Mrs. Hutchinson lived in an apartment…