Hicks v. State

The appellants were indicted, tried, and convicted of assault with intent to ravish; the indictment, omitting the formal parts, reading as follows:

“Did .feloniously, forcibly and against her will throw down to the ground the said Erma Harris, and pull up her clothes and get between her legs and expose her private parts and endeavor to force an entrance into the private parts of said Erma Harris with the private parts of Guy Hinton and Walter Hicks, contrary to the form of stattite in such case made and provided.”

It is contended by the appellants that the indictment is void under section 1359,…