State v. Williams
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for assault with intent to commit rape upon Lillie Caldwell, tried before Star buck, I, and a jury at Fall Term, 1897, of AlleghaNY Superior Court. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. The defendant was convicted and appealed from the judgment of the Court, sentencing him to the penitentiary for a term of five years.
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, J.:
This is an indictment for assault with intent to commit rape. . The case discloses two grounds of exception: Whether there was sufficient evidence to carry the case to the jury; and, if there was,as to the correctness of the Judge’s charge.
The prosecutrix, Lillie Caldwell, testified that she was sixteen years old; that she had started to a married sister’s about four miles from home, that she had to pass through fields, across fences, and through old fields and woods; that on her way, in the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1897, “the defendant came on behind her in the path, and…
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