McKenzie v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of an assault with intent to rape Miss Lois Eddins. The Court of Appeals affirmed as proper the introduction of proof tending to show defendant’s assault with intent to rape a Mrs. Outlaw at the .same place a few weeks after the alleged assault on the prosecutrix, basing the decision on the intent rule enunciated by Wigmore, Vol. II, § 357(3d Ed.), and applied in Wilkins v. State, 29 Ala.App. 349, 197 So. 75, certiorari denied, 240 Ala. 52, 197 So. 81.

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