The People v. Cozzie

Mr. Justice; Gunn

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff in error, William Cozzie, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of assault with intent to rape; was tried before the court without a jury on July 16, 1946; . was found guilty, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary.

Plaintiff in error, hereafter referred to as defendant, does not urge the facts are insufficient to constitute the crime, if the specific intent to commit it was present, but bases his claim to a reversal by asserting he was so “intoxicated he was unable to form the specific intent…