State v. . Jeffreys
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for assault with intent to commit rape, tried before Starbuck, J., at Spring Term, 1895, of Granville Superior Court. The defendant was convicted and appealed. The facts appear in the opinion of Associate Justice AveRY.
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
The defendant was sitting down in the path leading from the house of the prosecutrix to her well, a distance of 175 yards, when she passed in going for a bucket of water. Without, at the time, changing his sitting position, he solicited her to have sexual intercourse with him. When she replied that she was not that kind of a woman and went on towards the well, the defendant, after saying that “he was going to have it any way” and taking out his privates, followed her (as we infer from the evidence, slowly) and threw his foot upon the fence, but went no further then nor afterwards.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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