Pusley v. State

Dawes Pusley appeals from a judgment rendered against him in the district court of Bryan county on the 18th day? of October, 1919. The conviction was for assault with intent to rape, and the punishment assessed at four years’ imprisonment, in the state penitentiary.

It is first contended that the trial court erred in refusing to grant the defendant a new trial because of the insufficiency of the evidence. The prosecuting witness, Mrs. Agnes Thomas, testified that the defendant assaulted her while she was passing through a field near the home of the defendant; that after some effort she…