Hunter v. State

Taylor, J. :

Caesar Hunter, the plaintiff in error, at the October term, 1891, of the Criminal Court of Record for Duval county, was tried upon an information and convicted of the charge of “assault with intent,to rape,” and being sentenced to ten (10) years in the penitentiary, after refusal of his motion for new trial, brings his case here upon wait of error. As the evidence for the State is not voluminous, and as we have some comments to make upon its sufficiency for conviction, we will give it in full as it appears in the record.

Lucy Biggs, the prosecutrix, for the State testified as…