People v. Woods

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of defendant of an assault with intent to commit rape as charged in the information. The defendant was tried by the court sitting without a jury. No motion for a new trial was presented.

In the early morning hours of August 27, 1945, the complainant was “running down the street from taking my girl friend home. . . . All at once I heard a fast click of heels behind me, and I was grabbed from behind” and turned around. “Well, I said‘No.’ And he said‘Yes.’ And then he hit me in the eye and threw me down. . . . Then he was on top of me, and he told…