COMMONWEALTH v. ASHMORE

No. 333.

8 Pa. D. & C. 2d 523 (1957)

Commonwealth v. Ashmore

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

January 17, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. W. Steinbrook, for Commonwealth.

Cecil B. Moore, for defendant.


SLOANE, J., January 17, 1957.

The concise question here is whether a jury finding of guilty of statutory rape can stand, whether it has any validity, where defendant in the bill of indictment is charged only with forcible rape.

The testimony showed the prosecuting witness to be 15 years old when the occurrence took place.1 She asserted force on defendant's part. He admitted copulation and asserted consensus. If her...

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