Bullock v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for assault with intent to rape, punishment being two years in the penitentiary.

The main insistence before this court is that the evidence was not sufficient to support a conviction for assault with intent to rape. We find it unnecessary to consider that question.

Our attention has been called to the form of the indictment. That part of the statutory definition of rape (article 1183, P. C.), applicable to the present case provides that rape is: “* * * The carnal knowledge of a female under the age of eighteen years, other than the> wife of the person-, with or…