COOTS v. COMMONWEALTH


418 S.W.2d 752 (1967)

Felix COOTS, Jr., Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. M. Ward, Hazard, for appellant.

Robert Matthews, Atty. Gen., Joseph H. Eckert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


WADDILL, Commissioner.

Appellant, Felix Coots, Jr., was convicted of the crime of rape and his punishment fixed at confinement in prison for ten years. His grounds for reversal of the conviction are that the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence, the instructions did not cover the whole law of the case and the trial court erred in failing to grant a new trial.

The prosecuting witness testified unequivocally that appellant forced her to submit to sexual...

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