Grier v. State

The indictment in this case charges that Smith Grier, alias Grice, committed an assault with intent to rape upon Mrs. Bessie Greer. The exception is to the overruling of the defendant’s motion for a new trial.

Mrs. Bessie Greer testified, in substance, that at about teo’clock in the morning, while she was in an elevator between the second and third floors of the Southeastern Trust Company Building, in Atlanta, Ga., the defendant stopped the elevator, asked her if she drank whisky, offered to give her some whisky, and asked for “a date;” that when witness ordered the defendant to carry her…