McEwing v. State

The plaintiff in error was arraigned and convicted under the following indictment (omitting the formal parts) :

“That Jesse McEwing ... on the 18th day of April 1915, . . . unlawfully and feloniously did attempt to commit the crime and felony of unlawfully, feloniously, and carnally knowing a female over the age of twelve years, and under the age of twenty-one years, in this: That the said Jesse McEwing . . . on the 18th day of April, 1915, in the county aforesaid, unlawfully and feloniously did make an assault upon the body of one Bertha Black, she, the said Bertha *651Black, being’ then and…