Case ID: ga-app_3/html/0479-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "’.Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

905.
    Scott, alias Warren, v. The State.
    Indictment for assault with intent to rape, from Hancock superior court — Judge Eeagan presiding. November 18, 1907.
    Submitted January 14,
    Decided January 27, 1908.
    
      T. M. Hunt, T. L. Reese, for plaintiff in error.
    
      D. W. Meadow, solicitor-general, contra.
   ’.Powell, J.

Eor the reasons stated in Plummer v. State, 1 Ga. App. 507 (57 S. E. 969), this court can not reverse the refusal of a new trial on the evidence submitted. The conviction being for .assault with intent to rape, and not for rape, the doctrine of the Fields ease, 2 Ga. App. 41 (58 S. E. 327), and not of the Davis case, 120 Ga. 435 (48 S. E. 180), is applicable on the question' of corroboration. Judgment affirmed.