Davis v. State

Wiley Davis, a negro man, was convicted of an assault with intent to rape upon a white girl. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, based upon the general grounds and three special grounds, and, the motion having been overruled, he excepted.

The indictment charges that, on April 7, 1932, the defendant did “make an assault upon [the named victim], a female, with the intent then and there to have carnal knowledge of the said female forcibly and against her will, and did then and there strike, beat, and wound the said female, and the said defendant was heretofore tried in Bibb superior…