State v. Peck

Lively, Judge:

Tbe defendant was convicted of an attempt to commit a rape on Viola Adkins, and, on the 3rd day of February^ 1921, was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for three years, and he now presecntes this writ of error.

Defendant is a negro boy about 22 years of age and for several years prior to the indictment 'had been working for the white people on their farms in the neighborhood where the alleged offense was committed. At one time prior thereto he had worked on the farm of the husband of the prosecutrix. Several witnesses, men prominent in the community, testified that he…