Boulton v. State

Defendant below was indicted and charged with a crime against nature by engaging in fellatio with a 14-year-old boy named, a felony punishable by imprisonment and infamy (T.C.A. sec. 39-707 and sec. 40-2712)'. The jury found him “guilty of an attempt to commit a felony” (Id. sec. 39-603), and fixed his punishment at six months in the county jail, and judgment was accordingly entered.

He has appealed in error and has assigned errors insisting that the evidence preponderates against the verdict of guilt and in favor of his innocence, and that the only evidence of guilt was the testimony of the…