People v. Manchego

Citations

• 80 Cal. 306
• 22 P. 223
• 1889 Cal. LEXIS 907

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law—Assault with Intent to Commit Rape—Instruction— Simple Assault. —When a prisoner is charged with an assault with intent to commit rape, an instruction to the effect that if the defendant violently, laid hands or the prosecutrix with the intent by force to overcome her to such an extent as to have an improper connection with her, but not of forcibly ravishing her, he would then be guilty of a simple assault, is correct.</p>