Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal' froiu City Coutt of Mobile. "• . ’’ Tripcl before the Iíón. O. J. Skmmes. Géáie Brown was "convicted of asault with, intent to ravish! Ora Sayelle, the female on whom the assault" was alleged to'have been committed, was the only witness vho testified to the facts.
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Appeal' froiu City Coutt of Mobile. "• . ’’ Tripcl before the Iíón. O. J. Skmmes. Géáie Brown was "convicted of asault with, intent to ravish! Ora Sayelle, the female on whom the assault" was alleged to'have been committed, was the only witness vho testified to the facts. "She swore that on the occasion .named she was coming from , the spring, and at a place where the house was hidden, by some bushes the defendant caught her and threw her down and told her that she would never get home alive and that he was going to cut her throat, and that he dragged her some forty-five feet and threw her…
1Opinion of the Court
, TYSON, J—
It cannot be:seriously .controverted..that the evidence to sustain a. conviction for an assault ¡upon a girl with an intent, forcibly to ravish; her, must establish. the intent of the defendant to ravish beyond a .reasonable .doubt. . That such an intent, existed in the-mind of the defendant .at the time of an assault with: Torce; must, oftentimes, be gathered solely from his conduct; acts of violence perpetrated upon..the female, the;age of the female,, previous relations existing-between them, if any existed, time and place of the assault :ahd other circumstances attendant upon…
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