Allen v. State

The three-count indictment charged the appellant with forcibly assaulting the prosecutrix with intent to ravish and with attempting to take immoral or indecent liberties with a child, and with seeking to commit a lewd or lascivious act upon the body of female child under sixteen years of age. The jury found the appellant guilty as charged, and the trial court fixed punishment at twenty years in the State penitentiary.

The State's evidence proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the appellant is guilty as charged. Although the defense presented conflicting evidence after the State had rested,…