Bonner v. State

The defendant was convicted under an indictment charging him with the offense of assault with intent to rape. The legality of his conviction, as considered in the motion for new trial as amended, depends, in the main, upon the competency of the victim of the assault as a witness. When she was sworn as a witness for the State, the defendant moved that the court rule her incompetent, as a matter of law, to testify, on the ground that she had previously thereto, upon inquisition, been adjudged insane and a fit person for the Georgia State Sanitarium. This presented a preliminary question to be…