Wilson v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Circuit Court of Gibson County of an assault with intent to commit rape and his punishment fixed by the jury at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of ten years. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment having been overruled, the prisoner appealed. The indictment upon which the prisoner was tried and convicted is, viz.: “That Matthew Wilson, late pf said county, laborer, heretofore, to wit, on the 20th day of April, 1898, in the county of Gibson aforesaid, then and there unlawfully and feloniously an assault did _ make in and…