State v. Jackson

ODOM, Justice.

Section 792 of the Revised Statutes, as finally amended by Act No. 9 of 1912, reads as follows:

“Whoever shall assault another by wilfully shooting at him or with intent to ■commit murder, rape, or robbery shall ■on conviction thereof be imprisoned with or without hard labor not more than twenty years.”

The defendant Joseph Jackson was convicted of the crime of “assault with intent to commit rape”, as denounced by that section of the Revised Statutes, and on December 9, 1941, was sentenced by the court to serve 12 years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. No appeal from the…