Grace v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to rape and his punishment assessed at forty years in the penitentiary.

The proof shows that Mrs. Sarah Abbott, the assaulted woman, lived in the country in Harris County, about a mile and a half off of the1 Dayton road. The assault occurred about 9:30 at night, just after she and her "children had gone to bed. She said her attention was first attracted by hearing the screen door, which opened into her boys’ bedroom, opened. Two of her boys were in bed in that room. She asked her boys who it was, and said her boys supposed…