Williams v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of assault with intent to rape, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the prosecutrix was a small child, about nine years old and weighing about 68 pounds, and the appellant was a man seventy-three years of age. The prosecutrix testified that the appellant took her into an old dilapidated coal bin, about 16 by 20 feet according to the record, pulled down her bloomers, felt of her privates, unbuttoned his pants and put her hands on his privates; that both of them “stood flatfooted,” he being much taller…