Polk v. State

The defendant was convicted of assault and battery. The evidence shows that the defendant, in company with another man who was married, went to the home of two girls, at night, after they had retired. The companion of the defendant knew them, the defendant did not. The girls refused to see them. After they had locked the door, the companion of the defendant continued to demand admittance, finally broke the glass in the *426door, entered the house, and became engaged in a tussle with one of the girls, and they struggled out on the porch where the defendant was. The other girl, upon whom it is…