Nathan v. State

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Appellant, Willie B. Nathan, Jr., was charged, by information, with the crime of raping Mrs. Virginia Jo Ringer. He was found guilty of assault with intent to rape and sentenced to twenty-one years in the state penitentiary.

The uncontradicted testimony of Mrs. Ringer was essentially as here set out. She, her husband, and two children (one three years old and one less than a year old) lived in a trailer (in a trailer camp) near Helena; On Saturday morning shortly after three o’clock a man (she thought to be a negro) came into the room where she was sleeping, placed…