Gerlach v. State

A jury convicted appellant of an assault with intent to rape and fixed his punishment at a term of ten years in the Penitentiary. Prom the judgment is this appeal.

Appellant has preserved nineteen assignments of alleged errors in his motion for a new trial. His principal defense, if not his only defense, to the commission of the crime, was insanity.

His first three assignments, in effect, question the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. The prosecuting witness, Mabel Reeder, a Negro girl twelve years of age, testified that she had been picking cotton and that at about four…