Godboult v. State

The defendant was convicted of a simple assault upon a white girl, whose testimony at the trial was substantially as follows: At seven or seven-thirty o’clock, early in the morning of November 11, while she was going to her work, she met the defendant, a negro, in front of the picture show in Adel, Ga. As he came near her, or was passing her, he said: “Hello, honey, you didn’t know I love you, did you?” At the time this remark was made she was not looking at him (nor did she look at him afterwards), and did not know whether he was looking at her. There was a little negro girl going up the…