Curry v. State

On September 8, 1931, an indictment was returned by the grand jury in the. Jefferson circuit court, against this appellant charging that he assaulted Lizzie Cowart, a woman, with the-intent forcibly to ravish her. He was tried upon said indictment,' in said court, on December 17, 1931, and his trial resulted in a verdict-by the jury, to wit: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment.” The court thereupon sentenced this appellant to serve an indeterminate t;erm of imprisonment in the penitentiary of not less than nineteen years nor more than twenty years, and…