Davis

Appeal by defendant from a judgment and an order denying a new trial

The information filed in this ease charged the defendant with attempting to commit rape by an unlawful and felonious attempt to have sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of sixteen years, she not being then and there his wife. The evidence presented by the record fully justified the verdict of guilty.

The only error assigned by counsel in his brief is in relation to the admission in evidence of certain statements made by defendant to the prosecuting witness a few minutes before the performance of the criminal act. This testimony was in response to a direction of the trial court made to the witness to “tell in your own way all that happened there.’’ She thereupon testified as follows: ‘ ‘ He was talking about other girls that he knew. He said he knew lots of other girls. And one night I was there when there was a little girl about seven years -old and a large girl. He said he knew them a long time, and he said that they used to go over on the hill—and I don’t know where the hill is—over by Fourth—and he said they used to get beer and drink and have lots of fun like that, he said. He talked about them and…