Edelen v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to commit rape and the punishment is five years in the penitentiary.

The state’s testimony shows that appellant, a man of mature years, took the prosecutrix, a girl of seven years of age, into his house and after subjecting her to indignities practiced only by moral perverts, endeavored to have intercourse with her. Appellant, on the other hand, testified that the transaction did not happen as related by prosecutrix and claimed that she was an innocent visitor at his house and that he did nothing in any wise to shock the sensibilities of the most…