Horseford v. State

Dock Horseford was tried and found guilty of the offense of assault with intent to rape. He moved for a new trial, on the general grounds that the verdict was contrary to evidence and without evidence to support it, and was contrary to law, etc. A new trial was denied, and he excepted. The substance of the material evidence submitted in behalf of the State was as follows: The female alleged to have been assaulted was twelve years old. At the time of the alleged assault, three or four o’clock in the afternoon of a day in April, she was at her father’s house, which was situated…