Collins v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault with intent to rape Upon the person of Mrs. McDowell.

Taking the State’s case as strong as the record can make it, it is shown that the prosecutrix boarded a Pullman car on the Texas and Pacific Eailway at El Paso, en route to visit her family in Georgia. This occurred on June 17th; that on the morning of the 19th about 1 or 1:30 o’clock the train would reach Marshall, Texas, where prosecutrix would be transferred to a Few Orleans car. Accompanying her were her two children, a boy and a girl, about six years of age; that appellant…