Begley v. State

'Cecil Begley prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for assault with intent to rape.

It is first earnestly insisted that the evidence is not legally sufficient to- support the verdict. While the defendant took the stand in his own 'behalf and expressly denied that he had attempted to have intercourse with the prosecuting witness against her consent, and while he was corroborated in this respect by a male companion who was with him, yet, in testing the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, we must view the evidence for the State in the light…