Whiddon v. State

Broyles, 0. J.

In our judgment the fourth headnote alone requires elaboration. The accused, a married man and a grandfather, was charged with an assault with intent to rape, and was found guilty of an assault and battery. His alleged victim was an orphan girl, eleven years old, living with her grandmother, who resided only a short distance from the defendant’s home. Upon the trial the girl testified that her grandmother sent her one morning, about nine o’clock, to the defendant’s home to buy some onions; that when she reached his house he invited her in, and that while they were in the hall…