Griffith v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of an assault with intent to rape. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant seriously challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to justify and sustain his conviction.

The evidence offered by the State, briefly stated, 'shows that appellant at the time in question was engaged in the restaurant business in the town of Mineral Wells, Texas. On the afternoon of Saturday, August 17, 1940, Betty Carol Price, a girl about nine years of age, entered appellant’s place of business to get a drink…