White v. State

The appellant was charged, tried, and convicted of an assault and battery with intent to commit a rape. The prosecuting witness was appellant’s *309step-daughter, and a married woman. The occurrence is claimed to have taken place in the day time, at the home of the appellant and in one of the three rooms of the first story of a house of five rooms, and while two men were in a room on the second floor, his wife, a servant girl, and three children were in the kitchen, an adjoining room, her brother having just left the room and being upon the premises, and her husband’s hired man within speaking…