ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:
Johnny M. King was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County of the crime of "assault with intent to forcibly ravish one Sandra Knight, a female human being of previous chaste character." His term of imprisonment was fixed by the jury at two years in the State Penitentiary.
The indictment was framed under the provisions of Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-3-71 (1972), which provides:
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