Moore v. State

The defendant was convicted of assault with intent to rape, and assigns error on the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The evidence of the woman assaulted makes a clear case. While it is not essential in a ease of assault with intent to rape that the testimony of the injured female be corroborated (Fields v. State, 2 Ga. App. 41, 58 S. E. 327), still in this ease the woman was corroborated by the sheriff of the county, who testified that when he carried the defendant before her she readily identified him, and that the defendant admitted what the woman said, and admitted that he caught…