Commonwealth v. Kline

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

Appellant was convicted and sentenced on a charge of statutory rape. He was alleged to have had carnal knowledge of his daughter Barbara, who was under the age of sixteen at the time of the alleged offense. The date of her birth was June 14,1931, and the date of the alleged offense was October 20, 1946, about midway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays.

She testified that about 8:30 p. m. Sunday, October 20, 1946, after she had gone to bed, her father entered her bedroom. There was a door connecting her bedroom with the bedroom of her parents, and another door…