Crank v. State

Appellant was convicted of assault and battery, on a trial under an indictment the charging part of which reads as follows: ‘ ‘ The said defendant, A. W. Crank, in the county, district and State aforesaid, on the 10th day of September, 1923, did unlawfully, forcibly and feloniously make an assault upon Beatrice Mathews, with the unlawful and felonious intent to then and there forcibly, unlawfully and feloniously and against her will and consent to rape, ravish and carnally know the said Beatrice Mathews, she, the said Beatrice Mathews, being a female under the age of sixteen years, against…