State v. Powers

The appellant, Powers, was convicted of the crime of attempted rape on the person of a female child then under the age of eighteen years. The information filed against him was in three counts, all founded upon the same transaction. The first count, omitting the introductory parts, reads as follows:

“That the said Roy Powers, in the county of Ferry, state of Washington, on the 17th day of July, A. I). 1926, then and there being did, then and there, unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously assault one Doris Singer, a female child, not the wife of said Roy Powers and under the age of 18 years, to…