Aller v. State

From a conviction of the crime of assault with intent to commit rape upon Marie Boyd, a 17-year-old girl, defendant prosecutes error.

The errors assigned may be grouped under three heads:(1) Insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict;(2) errors in the reception of evidence over objection; (3) error in the court’s instructions to the jury.

Defendant urges that the evidence is insufficient because of a lack of corroboration of the testimony of the prosecuting witness, Marie Boyd. The evidence of Miss Boyd, if true, shows that defendant assaulted her with intent to carnally know her,…