Adams v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for fifty years.

In the count of the indictment, under which appellant was convicted, it is charged that the appellant “did then and there unlawfully in and upon Willie Mae Gentry, a woman, who was not then and there the wife of the said Charley Adams, make an assault, with the intent then and there to commit the offense of rape upon the said Willie Mae Gentry by then and there, without the consent of the said Willie Mae Gentry, attempting by force, threats and fraud to have carnal…