State v. Williams

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Defendant, Ennis Williams, charged in a bill of indictment with attempted aggravated rape, has appealed to this court from his conviction and sentence to serve 20 years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

The indictment under which he was tried and convicted, insofar as it is material here, reads as follows:

“That Ennis Williams late of the Parish aforesaid, on or about the 7th day of June 1947 with force and arms in the Parish, District and State aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Judicial District Court, did willfully, maliciously and feloniously Attempt…