Case Name: Brooks v. Commonwealth
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1930-06-20
Citations: 235 Ky. 19
Docket Number: 
Parties: Brooks v. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 235
Pages: 19–20

Head Matter:
Brooks v. Commonwealth.
(Decided June 20, 1930.)
W. O. SMITH for appellant.
J. W. CAMMACK, Attorney General, and DOUGLAS C. VEST for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion op the Count by
Drury, Commissioner
Affirming'.
John Thomas Brooks, a man 45 years of age, hopes by this appeal to escape a penitentiary sentence of 20 years imposed upon him for rape of a ten year old girl.
Immediately after the alleged occurrence, the little girl ran to and told her mother, and the latter was allowed to testify to the making of that complaint and to give some of the details of what the little girl said, and this is the sole ground relied on for reversal. It is not meritorious, for two reasons: The defendant did not object to it when given, and it was admissible as res gestee. See Meade v. Com., 214 Ky. 88, 282 S. W. 781.
Judgment affirmed.