SIMS v. STATE

No. 25250.

240 S.W.2d 297 (1951)

SIMS v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 13, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight Whitwell, J. E. Abernathy, McKinney, for appellant.

Paul Worden, Former Dist. Atty., Roland Boyd, Special Prosecutor, McKinney, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was given the death penalty upon his plea of guilty to a grand jury indictment charging him with rape, alleged to have been committed on June 18th, 1950.

The victim, a widow sixty years of age, lived with her mother, also a widow, eighty-two years of age, in a comfortable home in a rich black-land section of Collin County. The victim had been reared there and, upon the death of her husband some two years prior thereto, had returned...

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