State v. Langley

The plaintiff in error was indicted for making an assault and an unlawful attempt to carnally abuse Dorothy E. Hickerson, a woman-child under the age of twelve years. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to the state prison at hard labor for the term of two years. The case is before us upon strict bill of exceptions and under section 136 of the Criminal Procedure act. The assignments of error are eleven in number and the causes for reversal are ten. We do not think it necessary to comment on all of these. The point most stressed in the brief and argument for the plaintiff in error is the…