Stockton v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was indicted September 4, 1915, for an assault with intent to rape Miss Leady Joiner on April 24, 1915. The indictment was returned at the first term of the court after the alleged assault. He was tried September 12, 1916, found guilty of an aggravated assault and his punishment assessed at forty-five days in jail and a fine of $200.

At the time of the assault, Miss Leady, the assaulted girl, was just nineteen years old, and liyed and had been raised in the country in the neighborhood near where the assault occurred. She was a country girl. Appellant at the time…