State v. Eddings

The defendant was indicted at the October term of the Bandolph circuit court, 1879, charged in the first count with having burglariously broken into the dwelling-house of one M. C. McMillan, with intent to commit a rape upon the person of Ida McMillan, then in said dwelling-house. The second count was the same, except in charging the'intent to have been to commit a rape upon Mary McMillan. The defendant was tried and convicted; and from the judgment he has prosecuted his appeal.

i. the evidence, The evidence established the following facts: That Mr. McMillan slept in one room, and his little…