Etheridge v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. Appellant was tried and convicted of assault with intent to commit rape upon a girl under the age of ten years. The child had been sent by her mother on a message to a neighbor, who lived about half a mile distant.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. Appellant was tried and convicted of assault with intent to commit rape upon a girl under the age of ten years. The child had been sent by her mother on a message to a neighbor, who lived about half a mile distant. On her way back home she passed through woods near the residence of the defendant’s parents, when, according to her evidence, she was assailed by him, thrown down, and so maltreated as to leave no doubt of his purpose. When he let her go, she ran home and told her mother, who at the trial was…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
Appellant was indicted, tried, convicted, ■ and sentenced to the penitentiary for a period of two years, in the court below, for an assault with intent to rape one Kanegoda Aniol, under the age of ten years.
Challenges for cause to particular jurors are those enumerated in art. 636, Code of Criminal Procedure, and are applicable alike, with one exception, to all criminal cases. Art. 650. Ignorance of or-inability to speak and understand the English language, though not mentioned, has always been held a disqualification by virttie of the constitutional guaranties of a fair and impartial trial…
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