Gouglemann v. People

By the Court, Mitchell, J.

The plaintiff in error was tried at the general sessions, and found “ guilty of an assault with intent to commit a rape above charged, in the form aforesaid, as by the indictment is above alleged against him.” He was condemned to imprisonment in the state prison for four years and ten months. The indictment alleges that he willfully and feloniously made an assault upon one Virginia Lyons, and with her, by force and with violence, and against her will and consent, then and there had carnal connection and sexual intercourse. It does not use the word “ ravish,” and for…