State v. Stockton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

Defendant was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, and appeals.

On the evening of October 28, 1924, the local organization of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at Meriden held a meeting. Defendant was a member. He went to the vicinity of the stairway leading to the hall where the meeting was to be held, conversed with another member, and gave an excuse for not going up when it was time for the meeting to begin. About an hour later, when prowling just outside the city limits, he saw a woman hanging clothes on a line at the back of her…