Montague v. State

On the sixteenth day of December, A. D., 1879, the grand jury of the county of Duval presented an indictment against Ellis Moon for making an assault with intent to commit a rape upon the person of Adaline Warren, and alleging in the same indictment that this plaintiff in error was feloniously “present, aiding, abetting, and assisting the said Ellis Moon, the felony and intended rape to dc and commit, contrary, &c.”

On motion an order of severance was made, and on the fifth day of January, A. D., 1880, the defendant/Adolph Montague was tried on a plea of not guilty, and was found guilty by the…