Turner v. State

Deen, Judge.

1. The defendant was indicted for “attempt to commit a violent injury on [a named person], and did unlawfully cut and stab the said female so assaulted, with the intent and purpose then and there to have carnal knowledge of her.” There was evidence that the defendant had a knife with which he deliberately cut the victim on the hand and drew blood. Other details of the testimony established that the defendant's acts were motivated by a sexual purpose, but that he left the house after about an hour without actually disrobing and without physically attempting to rape the victim.…