Middleton v. State

1. The defendant in the lower court was tried and convicted of assault and battery. A young lady ,in the town of Donalsonville, who has since married, was followed about two hundred yards one night, in December, 1906, by a man who grabbed her in his arms and hugged her. It was about a quarter past eight o’clock. She was returning to her home from the telephone office, . where she worked. When she screamed some ladies who had been shopping came down the street, and the man ran off. He was arrested later in the night, when he was apparently about to board a train. The prosecutrix testified,…