BLACKWELL v. STATE

No. 27413.

275 S.W.2d 491 (1955)

Dempsey J. BLACKWELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 16, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. T. Miller, Amarillo, Archer & Hazelwood, by Branch T. Archer, Jr., Amarillo, for appellant.

Leon Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for statutory rape; the punishment, 35 years' confinement in the penitentiary.

The prosecuting witness, who was seventeen years of age on the date of the alleged offense, testified that on the night of May 4, 1954, she went with the appellant to a party in the City of Amarillo; that after the two left the party, appellant, instead of driving her home, began driving out on the Canyon Highway; that she repeatedly insisted...

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