Lacey v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by the jury of an assault with intent to rape on the person of Mary Christine Parker, and sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the state penitentiary.

It is necessary to set out the revolting facts in order that this opinion may be understood.

Mary Christine Parker was a little negro girl six years old, so her mother testified, and the appellant seems to be some kind of a doctor, of just what school of medicine it is not shown. The appellant lived in a tent with his wife near an old sawmill, and on the date of this alleged occurrence Mrs. Lacey,…