Collins v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in tbe district court of Muskogee county of an, attempted rape in tbe first degree and was sentenced to serve a term of 3T years in the state penitentiary.

The record is that defendant, a negro, at tbe time charged, attempted to rape a young white woman school teacher whom he accosted on the highway. He robbed her of her purse, then dragged her under a wire fence into the underbrush and made a vicious assault, in which he tore off most of her clothing and threatened her with a knife. It was by the utmost resistance and by her…