State v. Langford

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parlangb, J.

The defendant has been found guilty by a jury of an assault with intent to ravish and he has been sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of eighteen months. He has appealed, and he relies upon four bills of exception to reverse the judgment of the lower court.

By his first bill of exception he contends that the prosecutrix “was not a competent witness.” The only ground for this contention is that on cross-examination, she stated that “ she did not know the consequence, nor how she would be punished in case she…