Gaskin v. State

Jeff Gaskin, a negro boy about 16 or 11 years of age, about dark entered through a window the room of a white girl about 14 years old, and concealed himself under her bed. She *632came into the room to retire, about two hours afterwards, and hearing a noise under the bed went for her mother. Upon examination they discovered him. He immediately fled through the window and escaped. The room contained no articles of value. The girl’s father and mother were in an adjoining room into which the girl’s room opened. The mother’s bed was three or four feet from her daughter’s. The girl occupied her room…