Jones v. State

Howard Jones was indicted for committing an assault with intent to rape. The jury found him guilty of the offense charged, and the question for determination here is whether *680or not the trial judge erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.

The following is a summary of the evidence in the case. The defendant was a negro, thirty-nine years of age, and the white girl hereinafter referred to as the “young lady,” upon whom the assault was alleged to have been committed, was eighteen years old. The young lady’s home was located in a fairly thickly populated part of the City of Atlanta.…