Poole v. State

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Appellant, L. C. Poole (a colored man), was convicted on a charge of assault with intent to rape a fourteen year old white girl and sentenced to serve the minimum term of three years in the penitentiary. On appeal appellant urges two points for a reversal, viz.: (1) Insufficiency of the evidence, and (2) the court’s refusal to give a certain instruction requested by him.

1. This point will be considered under two subheads, viz.: (a) Insufficiency of evidence to show appellant was the man who made the assault, and (b) insufficiency of evidence to show the specific…