Pierce v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to rape, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. The state’s testimony showed that prosecutrix, Sanaida Ovalle, had bruises and scratches on her arms which appeared to have been caused by the finger nails of some person. Some of the state’s witnesses who were near the scene of the transaction testified that they heard prosecutrix scream. Touching the immediate transaction, prosecutrix testified as follows:

“I was washing at the creek and had on a big bonnet and had…