Rettig v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Rusk. Tried below before the Honorable Charles L. Brachfield. Appeal from a conviction of assault with intent to rape; penalty, three years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. Cited: McCullough v. State, 47 S. W. Rep., 990. On question of tracks: Campbell v. State, 15 Tex. Crim. App., 506; Rucker v. State, 51 Texas Crim. Rep., 222; Burch v. State, 49 id., 13. On question of intent; Steiner v. State, 37 Texas Crim.
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Appeal from the District Court of Rusk. Tried below before the Honorable Charles L. Brachfield. Appeal from a conviction of assault with intent to rape; penalty, three years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. Cited: McCullough v. State, 47 S. W. Rep., 990. On question of tracks: Campbell v. State, 15 Tex. Crim. App., 506; Rucker v. State, 51 Texas Crim. Rep., 222; Burch v. State, 49 id., 13. On question of intent; Steiner v. State, 37 Texas Crim. Rep., 291, Blount v. State, 34 id., 640.
1Opinion of the Court
HAWKINS, Judge.
Conviction was for assault with intent to rape Allie Jordan, alleged to have been committed on or about the 16th day of April, 1919, and punishment was assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.
Allie Jordan and her sister Nancy were negro girls, and upon the day of the alleged offense had been washing for the 'family of Mr. Sam McKnight. About one-thirty o’clock in the afternoon they finished their work and started home, going through the fields. When about two hundred yards from McNight’s place they met two negro men, the appellant in this case, Monnie Rettig,…
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