State v. Covington

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The defendant appeals from a conviction of the charge of an attempt to commit rape.

The complaining witness, a woman twenty-six years old, is the wife of C. C. Lewis, the depot agent at the village of Cedar. Defendant is a single man forty years old. The Lewis home is north of the railroad track and two or three blocks from the station. Defendant’s home was about thirty yards distant from that of the complaining witness and he was in the habit of getting water from a well at the Lewis house. Other houses in the immediate neighborhood were two…