Wermy v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Comanche county of the crime of assault with intent to rape, and his punishment fixed by the court at imprisonment in the reformatory at Granite, Okla., for a period of four years.

The evidence of the state was that Marie Sanders, an 8 year old girl, was on the way from her home to a country school about two and a quarter miles away; that the defendant, an Indian boy, caught up with her and after walking by her side for some distance made her get out on the side of the road and asked her if she would…