Court Opinion

ID: 6718795
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 22:51:02.706932+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:32.807148
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
Epitomized Opinion
Defendant was convicted of assault with intent to ommit a rape, under an indictment charging him vith rape with the consent of the girl, she being mder the age of sixteen and he being over the age if eighteen years. No motion for a new trial was nade, but a motion to discharge the prisoner took' >lace, and it is urged that the verdict finds him ;uilty of an offense that he is not charged with in he indictment, and, therefore, having been found lot guilty of all other offenses in the indictment, íe should be discharged.
Apparently it was the error of the clerk in writing, ‘Assault with intent to commit' a rape,” instead of, ‘jin an attempt to commit a rape,” which is a separate and distinct offense in our statute, but it does fot necessarily follow that the accused must be discharged. We think that the case must be reversed rind be remanded to the Common Pleas for a new trial, under the authority of Fox v. State, 34 OS. É77, where the exact question, in its practical effect, was before the court.