Scott v. State

Aaron Scott was convicted of assault with intent to rape a small, nine-year-old white girl. The defendant was a negro man who lived and worked on a farm adjoining the farm on which the child lived with her father and mother. At the time of the alleged offense the father was in Florida, and the mother was away from the residence and in the field working, beyond the pond from the house. The child’s testimony, which we quote in the material parts, substantially covers the issues necessary for a determination of the assignment of error on the usual general grounds, the only assignment before us:…