INGRAM v. COMMONWEALTH


66 S.E.2d 846 (1951)

192 Va. 794

INGRAM v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

October 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reuben E. Lawson, Roanoke, for plaintiff in error.

Atty. Gen. J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Frederick T. Gray, for the Commonwealth.

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


SPRATLEY, Justice.

Alphonso Ingram, plaintiff in error, a young Negro man twenty years of age, has been convicted of an attempted rape, and sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary in accordance with the verdict of a jury. Section 8-491, Code of Virginia 1950.

He asks us to reverse the judgment against him on the sole ground that the evidence was insufficient to justify the jury in finding that he attacked the prosecutrix with the intent to commit rape...

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