Turner v. State

Lewis Turner was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Superi- or Court of Willces County of assault with intent to rape one Leona Jones by “violently, forcibly and feloniously” assaulting her with intent to ravish her. On the trial of the case, the prosecutrix testified that she arrived in Washington, Georgia, by bus at 10:45 on the night of January 19, 1951; that she was new in that community; that she expected her husband to meet her, but when he did not, she set out to walk to her home at 612 Whitehall Street; that the defendant came by in a taxi and asked her if she wanted a taxi; that,…