State v. Egbert

The evidence tended to show that on Saturday, the 11th day of October, 1902, at about half past ten o’clock in the forenoon, the prosecuting witness, 13 years of age, started from the town of Melrose for her home, which was about two and one half miles from town south and east. She proceeded south along a highway about one hundred and ten rods, and then turned east along another highway, and had gone about thirty-five rods, when she was assaulted by a man who, when she first saw him, was sitting under a tree. There is no question as to the brutal nature *445of the assault, the sole controversy…