Clay v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to rape; the punishment, two years.

Prosecutrix testified that appellant was at the time of the assault in question the uncle of her husband whom she had later divorced; that her husband had left their house in the rural section of Van Zandt County, leaving her there alone with appellant, at which time the assault occurred. Prosecutrix extricated herself from appellant’s advances and ran to meet her husband, who was returning from the store.

Prosecutrix was supported in her testimony by her family doctor, who testified that she was highly…