State v. Sargent

The defendant was indicted and convicted for an assault upon Bessie Robbins, a female child of the age of eight years, with intent to commit a rape. The child testified as a witness for the state, in substance, that one Grace Casey was with her at the time of the alleged assault; that they went directly from the place of the assault to where the Casey girl’s mother lived, in the same block, and that Grace related to her mother what had transpired; that they went from there to where Mrs. Robbins, the mother of Bessie lived, also in the same block, and that Grace told Mrs. Robbins what had…