Armstead v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction was for assault with intent to rape, punishment being fixed at confinement for ten years in the penitentiary.

No objection was filed to the court’s charge; no special charges requested; the record contains no bills of exceptions, and the case is submitted to this court on the sole proposition that the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction of assault with intent to rape.

The prosecutrix, Rosa Ignasialc, was a little Polish girl, not quite fourteen years of age at the time of the alleged offense. , Her mother had sent her to a neighbor about two-thirty or…