Rich v. State

The first headnote alone needs elaboration. The defendant was tried under an indictment charging rape, and was convicted of an assault with intent to rape. The undisputed evidence in the ease shows that on December 22, 1923, Docia Thompson, who had just turned eighteen, years old, attended, in company with Mattie Burns and two other girls, a Christmas-tree celebration at Ivy Log Schoolhouse in Union county; that the defendant was also there; that when the. party broke up, the defendant and Docia started walking along the public road towards her home, *155and that Mattie Burns and Letha Toivnsend…