Trammell v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of assault with intent to rape, and the jury assessed his punishment at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The sufficiency of the evidence to show a specific intent on the part of appellant to have carnal knowledge of the female named in the indictment is questioned.

The evidence, from the state’s standpoint, shows that appellant, a married man and the father of a child, at about 10 o’clock at night, went to the home of Doyle Green, Chief Boatswain Mate of the U.S. Coast Guard, in the town of Port O’Connor, where he found Mrs. Green…