Winans v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to rape; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Prosecutrix, Frankie Watson, was seventeen years of age at the time of the assault. Relative to the assault she testified in substance as follows: As she was walking along the highway toward her father’s home, appellant, Archie Reese and appellant’s brother took her into their car with the promise to take her home. Instead of taking her home, they passed her father’s house and drove several miles into the country. Driving into a field near the highway, appellant stopped…