Williams v. State

1. 5?he accused was convicted of the offense of assault with intent to rape. Personally we would have been better satisfied with the verdict if he had been found guilty only of assault and battery, for, so far as the circumstances in evidence disclose, he made no effort to effect an entrance into the sexual organ of the little girl, although (if the testimony in behalf of the State is credible) the offense committed by him was most loathsome and dastardly. Not only the physician who examined the child, and who was introduced in behalf of the defendant, but also the child’s grandmother, who…