Cockrell v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was given a sentence of ten years in the penitentiary on a charge of assault to rape.

The appeal is predicated on several grounds which have been extensively briefed, but the only question which has appeared to give him relief is the bill of exception dealing with the sufficiency of the evidence.

The accused was a salesman in a furniture establishment. In the late afternoon of April 30, 1941, he met a little girl with her brother and another small boy, apparently loitering at a drink place on their way home from school. At his suggestion, they joined him and…