Edwards v. State

HURT, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to rape, and his punishment assessed at six years in the penitentiary, and he prosecutes this appeal. The indictment charges the offense to have been committed on a female under the age of fifteen years. The evidence shows that appellant was sleeping at the house of the prosecutrix, in the kitchen; that the prosecutrix, who was ten years of age, was sleeping in an adjoining room, and her parents in the front room. The door between the kitchen and the room in which the prosecutrix was sleeping was bolted, and there was no…