Grant v. State

A negro man, fifty-five years old, shortly after midnight on March 5, 1943, made an attack upon a white girl of eighteen years. The girl was going from her work at the Goodyear Mills in Cedartown. She worked from four o’clock in the afternoon until twelve o’clock midnight. She met the negro in front of the Senator Harris Hotel, and he turned and followed her. She slowed up for him to pass. He did not pass. He grabbed her from behind, pulled her head against the front of his body, and put his arm around her neck. She had on a wrist-watch. She had on her work apron which contained a knife with…