People v. Verdegreen

Defendant was convicted of an assault with intent to rape, and was sentenced to a term of years in the state prison. He appeals from the judgment.

1. The evidence disclosed that the object of the alleged assault was a girl of the age of seven years; that she went voluntarily to the room of defendant, and submitted, without resistance, to his advances. Upon this evidence defendant requested the court to charge the jury that: “ In an assault with intent to commit rape there must not only be an intent to commit a rape, but that intent must be manifested by an assault upon the person intended to…