Douglass v. State

The defendant, Ensley Douglass, was indicted for the crime of assault with intent to commit rape upon Nina Carroll, a girl about sixteen years of age. The trial jury convicted him of the charge, and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years, and appeals from the judgment of conviction.

The offense is alleged to have been committed in the city of Little Rock on or about June 10, 1912, at night in the bedroom of Nina Carroll and her elder sister, Goldie Carroll, who occupied the room together. Nina Carroll was, as before stated, about sixteen years old, and her sister was…