State v. Smith

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Reavis, J.

— Appellant was charged with a public

offense in the following terms:

“ The crime of assault with intent to commit rape, committed as follows, to-wit: That on the 20th day of October, 1897, and within three years next before the filing of this information, at the county of Spokane and state of Washington, the said defendant, August Smith, then and there in the said county and state being, then and there unlawfully and feloniously did then and there in and upon one Millie Hux, a female child under the age of eighteen years, feloniously attempt…