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STRAWDERMAN v. COMMONWEALTH

108 S.E.2d 376 (1959)

200 Va. 855

Kirby STRAWDERMAN v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

May 4, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald D. Litten, Harrisonburg (George D. Conrad, Harrisonburg, on the brief), for plaintiff in error.

John W. Knowles, Asst. Atty. Gen. (A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen, on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, WHITTLE, SNEAD and I'ANSON, JJ.

WHITTLE, Justice.

Strawderman was convicted of the rape of Mary Elizabeth Miller, a female child under the age of sixteen years. Code, § 18-54. The jury fixed his punishment at forty years in the penitentiary. A motion to set aside the verdict was overruled, judgment entered, and the accused sentenced in conformity with the verdict. We granted him a writ of error.

The narrative statement of the testimony of the witnesses for the Commonwealth (no evidence...

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