Blasengame v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This strange and sordid case grows out of appellant’s conviction on an indictment charging assault with intent to murder.

The injured woman was May Bell Lancaster, twenty years of age, and we will hereinafter refer to her as the prosecutrix.

The State’s evidence tends to show that on Saturday, 17 May, 1947, the prosecutrix joined Vernie Terry and three boys, one of whom was Vernie’s brother.

This group rode around in a car all night. They got out of the car in Courtland on' Sunday morning. Later that morning theprosecutrix, Vernie Terry, “Big Boy” Terry, and William Franklin Terry…