Warren v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault with intent to rape, his punishment being fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of forty years.

The defense was insanity. During the day in the center of the city of Lancaster, at a place where many people were within call, the appellant, a negro man, made an assault upon a white woman. When persons attracted by her screams came to her aid the appellant protested against interference with his business. Considering the time, place and nature of the assault, it is difficult to reconcile it with the act of a rational…