Groce v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Judge. — Conviction for attempt to rape; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

We are not favored with a brief by either the State or the appellant in this case. The facts show that appellant in his car took prosecutrix, a girl under eighteen years of age, some distance out in the country from Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, to where he turned up a lane, parked his car and there attempted to have carnal knowledge of said girl, — all of which he admitted as a witness in his own behalf, but claimed to have acted with her consent. She being under the age of consent, there is…