Gott v. State

The appellant was indicted for an assault and battery with intent to commit a rape. On a trial of the charge, on April 6, 1897, the jury found him guilty as charged, and that his age was twenty years. The circuit court rendered judgment on the verdict, over appellant’s motion for a venire de novo and for a new trial.

The judgment was as follows : “It is therefore considered, ordered and adjudged by the court that the defendant is guilty as charged in the indictment, and that he be confined in the custody of the board of managers of the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville, Indiana, as guilty…