McKenzie v. State

CARR, Judge.

Appellant was tried and convicted on an indictment which charged assault with intent to ravish. The alleged assaulted person is Lois Eddins, who at the time was about fifteen years of age.

The prosecutrix testified that the defendant approached her on the streets of Birmingham and invited her to go with him for an automobile ride. She reluctantly accepted, but did get in his car. Finally the appellant stopped the car on a by-road several miles out. There the defendant told her that he had previously lost a bracelet. After some casual search for the article which he claimed he lost,…