Commonwealth v. Randolph
Commonwealth v. Randolph
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Appellant was convicted of rape. He files two assignments of error. We have carefully considered them in connection with the testimony, the charge of the learned trial judge, and the arguments presented, and find them without merit.
1. The evidence of the Commonwealth showed that a brutal assault had been made upon a girl in Keystone Park in the Borough of Sayre, between 9 and 10 o’clock, in the evening of August 12, 1919. During that night, appellant, alleged to be the assailant, was arrested in the railroad yards of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, near Sayre, where he had reported for work. When arrested, he denied having been in or near Keystone Park during the evening, stated that he had been in the Lockhart street restaurant and gave the names of various persons who would corroborate his assertions, and asked that they be subpoenaed to attend the hearing.
Doubtless in view of this denial, taken with what was reported to the authorities concerning the assault, appellant was taken to the Robert Packer Hospital at Sayre by two police officers early on the morning of
2. The Commonwealth called two physicians, one who examined the girl on the evening of August 12th and the other who, with the former, examined her on the morning of August 13th; the second assignment complains that the learned trial judge “unduly called the attention of the jury to the evidence of the” former as compared with his reference to the testimony of the second physician. The record does not show that the attention of the court was called to the matter at the conclusion of the charge, but we have considered the complaint and find it without foundation.
The judgment is affirmed and the record remitted to the court below to the end that the sentence may be carried into effect.
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