DeBerry v. State

The prisoner was convicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County of an assault and battery with intent to ravish a female under the age of ten years, .and his punishment fixed by the jury at death by hanging. Motion for new trial and in arrest of judgment having been overruled, the prisoner has appealed.

The first assignment of error is that the verdict was not warranted by the evidence. The victim of the alleged crime was a little white girl about seven *209years of age, named Elenora Eigiman, who, with her parents, lived on a farm .near Erayser Station, in Shelby County. The prisoner and his…