Boyett v. State

CATES, Judge.

Boyett, found guilty of assault and battery, appeals. His punishment: a fine of $250.00 and six months hard labor for the county.

The tendency of the State’s evidence was that Boyett went into a hospital room without anyone asking him in. It was late at night. Finding a female patient in bed. there, he started taking her pulse. “Then he said he had to go see a patient.”

The prosecutrix further testified that on his return she asked him who he was. He-replied, “Young Dr. G-.”

Thereupon, “He * * * more or less-started to give me a physical examination.”' This involved palpation, a…