Carson

The petitioner herein, after serving a little more than half of a 4-year term of imprisonment in the State Prison, seeks freedom by writ of error, filed pursuant to R. S. 1930, Chap. 116, Sec. 12, on assertion that the verdict underlying the sentence imposed against him was not a proper one under the indictment on which he was tried. Certified copies of the indictment, sentence and docket entries involved disclose that he was charged with taking indecent liberties with the sexual organs of a female child 9 years of age and convicted of an attempt to do so. The writ having been dismissed below…