Mangum v. United States

BEAN, District Judge.

The plaintiff in error was charged by an indictment in two counts with assault to commit the crime of rape and the commission'of the crime. From the judgment which followed he brings this appeal.

The evidence on behalf of the government tended to show that on the afternoon of July 19, 1921, while the prosecutrix was horseback riding on a military Teservation in Arizona, she suddenly met at a turn of the trail a negro soldier on a buckskin horse. The soldier immediately dismounted, grabbed the reins of the prosecutrix’s horse, seized! her, and notwithstanding her efforts to…