Mayer v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, and kidnapping, and sentenced on each count to six to ten years, sentences to run concurrently. To review that judgment he prosecutes this writ. His six specifications amount to but two: 1. The verdict is unsupported by the evidence; 2. Certain instructions given by the court were erroneous.

The first count of the information charges an assault upon the prosecuting witness, hereinafter designated as Mrs. G., “by force and violence,” and that defendant did so “attempt to carnally know…