People v. Jones

The defendant was convicted by a jury of assault with intent to commit rape, and from the judgment which followed this appeal is taken.

At 8:30 P. M. on the evening of September 11, 1930, Miss O. E. Ruttinger left a prayer meeting in Riverside, California, and after ■ walking three or four blocks to her home, stopped to do some watering in and about her garden before she entered the house. During the time she was watering she went into the house for the purpose of making a telephone call, and at that time turned on a dome light in the hallway of the second story of her home. Leaving this light…