State v. . Harris

The evidence disclosed by the record was amply sufficient to support the verdict and judgment. Without undertaking to state the evidence in detail it may be said that there was testimony tending to show that on the occasion charged the State’s witness, Mrs. Warren, the wife of a farmer, in the absence of her husband, was doing some work at a tobacco plant bed 200 yards from the house. The defendant, an employee of her husband, had been plowing in a field near-by. He came to the plant bed where she was and there criminally assaulted her, choking her into insensibility and fracturing her skull…