Woodard v. State

The appellant was convicted iñ the criminal district court of Tarrant county for the offense of assault with intent to rape, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the prosecutrix, Mrs. J. D. Armstrong, and her husband lived at Lake Worth, and the appellant, a negro about 20 or 21 years old, lived with his family in that vicinity, and on the evening of the alleged offense, about dark, the prosecu-trix heard the appellant call for Mr. Clark, one of her neighbors who was engaged in running a truck and doing job work, and she informed the…