Eckert v. State

Appellant was prosecuted on the charge that at a time named, in Huntington county, in the State of Indiana, he made a felonious assault upon W. H., a female child only fourteen years old, and committed a rape of her person. The jury returned a verdict finding that he was guilty of assault and battery with intent to commit rape, and that he was twenty-three years old. Overruling his motion for a new trial is assigned as error. By several specifications in the motion, appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, particularly as to the venue of the action. The…