Taylor v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereafter called defendant, was convicted of the offense of assault with intent to commit rape, and was sentenced to serve two years at hard labor at Waupun.

The prosecuting witness lived upon an island in the Mississippi river with her husband and eight-year-old daughter. Defendant, for two or three months prior to the assault, had lived in a house-boat near the island. No one else lived on the island. Defendant had known the family for several months and had been quite friendly with the little girl.

On the day of the assault the prosecuting witness was washing clothes in…