Bourland v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape upon a girl under 15 years of age, and his punishment fixed at ninety-nine years confinement in the penitentiary. The record shows that appellant, after securing permission from the prosecutrix’s mother for prosecutrix to accompany him to an adjoining county, placed prosecutrix in a wagon and started on the journey. Dark coming on, appellant camped on the banks of a creek. Prosecutrix testified: "Appellant made down the pallet with the two quilts in the hack. I sat up after he laid down. He made me lay down with him…