Lebo v. State

The plaintiff in error, who for brevity will hereinafter be referred to as defendant, was convicted in the district court of Murray county on a charge of assault with intent to rape and was sentenced to serve a term of 2i/2 years in the state penitentiary and to pay a fine of $500.

It appears from the record that at the time charged defendant, a young man about 19 years of age, took the prosecutrix, Lorynne Slaughter, who was in her seventeenth year, riding in an automobile; that the car was stopped not far from town on a highway and there defendant sought to have sexual intercourse with the…