Case ID: nc_193/html/0845-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE v. Q. A. McWHIRTER.
    (Filed 20 April, 1927.)
    Criminal action, tried before Oglesby, J., at December Term, 1926, ' of Forsyth.
    Tbe defendant was tried upon a bill of indictment charging him with assault with intent to commit rape. Tbe jury found tbe defendant guilty of assault on a female by a male person over tbe age of eighteen years.
    From judgment of the court sentencing him to work upon the-public roads for a term of two years, the defendant appealed.
    
      
      Attorney-General Brummitt and Assistant Attorney-General Nash for the Slate.
    
    
      W. M. Porter and J. D. McCall for defendant.
    
   Per Curiam.

The defendant asserts that the jury rendered a verdict that he was not guilty of assault with intent to commit rape, as charged in the hill of indictment, “but guilty of simple assault on a female,” and therefore no punishment could be imposed in excess of imprisonment for thirty days, or a fine of fifty dollars. However, the record discloses that the verdict rendered was “guilty of assault on a female by a male person over the age of eighteen years.” On appeal the record imports verity, and we are not permitted to consider any matter not appearing therein. A close scrutiny of the record fails to disclose any error of law, and therefore the judgment must stand.

No error.