Ramos v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for assault with intent to rape, with punishment fixed at life in the penitentiary as an habitual offender (Art. 63, P. C.).

The sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction is challenged. As to this, we state the facts in the light most favorable to the state.

Prosecutrix, almost nine years of age, was on her way home from school when appellant, a forty-one-year-old man, whom she had not theretofore known, rode up to her on a bicycle and inquired if she could read. Upon her affirmative reply, he produced a piece of paper upon which was the address…