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SKIPPER v. COMMONWEALTH

80 S.E.2d 401 (1954)

195 Va. 870

SKIPPER v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 15, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold B. Singleton, Lucian H. Shrader, Lynchburg, for plaintiff in error.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty Gen., Thomas M. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, SMITH and WHITTLE, JJ.

HUDGINS, Chief Justice.

Bernard Skipper, a Negro 20 years of age, was convicted of rape of a white woman 46 years of age and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for 30 years.

The evidence for the Commonwealth may be summarized as follows: On September 22, 1952, at approximately 3:00 A.M. the prosecutrix returned to her apartment in Lynchburg after a two weeks' visit to Richmond. She turned on the lights and opened the windows in the living room, the...

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