People v. Timmons

Defendant was charged with having committed assault and rape on October 4, 1940, in the township of Dearborn in Wayne county. He was tried by a judge without a jury and convicted of assault with intent to commit rape. Complainant was of age and had been married over four years. She had previously worked in a beer tavern. As the sole ground of appeal, defendant claims that the conviction was against the great and overwhelming weight of the evidence. Possibly it was thus stated so as to give emphasis to the claim. The question should be whether or not the conviction was against the weight of…