Blake v. State

Krueger, Judge.

The offense is an assault with intent to rape; the punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of ten years.

Appellant urges two grounds upon which he relies for a reversal of this case. The first is that the trial court erred in overruling his application for a continuance based upon the absence of his wife by whom he expected to prove, and claims he would have proved, that on the night in question she came after him in an automobile about two or two-thirty A. M. and carried him home where he went to sleep and slept for the remainder of the night.

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