Steptoe v. State

Morrow, Presiding Judge.

Assault with intent to rape is the offense; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The State’s testimony is to the effect that Lucille Hopkins, a girl fifteen years of age, went in an automobile with appellant and three other companions for the purpose of going to church at Broaddus. There being no meeting at the Broaddus church, the parties proceeded in their car to the Apostolic Church at Attoyac, a distance of eighteen or twenty miles. After the meeting the parties got in their car and rode for several miles. Appellant, who was driving the…