Gibson v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was by information charged jointly with Elmer Ridenhour, Jake Furnish, Curt Pollett, and Minnie Williamson, with the crime of assault with intent to commit rape. The defendant, Floyd Gibson, was tried separately and found guilty, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for five years, term to begin at the date of the delivery of the defendant to the warden of the state penitentiary. Motion for new trial was filed, considered, and overruled, and the case appealed to this court.

The testimony on behalf of the…