Rogers v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in this case of an assault to rape the person of Delila Lockett, a girl under fifteen years of age, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.

Appellant filed a motion to quash the indictment on the following ground: “Because the said indictment does not contain any date that the alleged rape was committed, it only providing as follows, to-wit: ‘That Edmund Rogers on or about the 6th day of Feb-ruary one thousand nine hundred and teo.’ ” The court approved the bill reserved to this action in overruling the motion with…