Love v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

— Appellant was indicted for an assault upon Gladys Young, under fifteen years of age, with intent to ravish and have carnal knowledge of her, she not being his wife. He was convicted and the jury fixed the lowest penalty — two years in the penitentiary.

The testimony, without contradiction, shows that at the time of the alleged assault, May 10, 1910, appellant was a minister of the gospel and pastor of a country church a few miles distant from the residence of Gladys Young’s parents and family, and had then been such pastor for about two and a half years; that he preached…