State v. Coram

Hatcher, Judge:

From conviction of a charge of attempted rape, the defendant secured a writ of error.

The defendant denied the charge, but since the verdict of the jury was against him, we must favor the evidence 'of the State, which is as follows:

About 10:00 A. M. on a Sunday in October, 1934, Betty Richards, then aged five years and seven months, was sent by her mother to purchase a newspaper. Betty returned about twenty minutes later, in a disheveled condition, started to cry and exclaimed: “He spilled white stuff all over me * * * he held me close to him and spilled white stuff.” The upper…