PIERCE v. STATE

No. 28154.

290 S.W.2d 912 (1956)

Timothy PIERCE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 30, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. P. Moseley, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., James K. Allen, William F. Alexander, and George P. Blackburn, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

The seventeen-year old prosecutrix and her nineteen-year old male companion were parked on a country road after midnight when the appellant and two companions drove by in their automobile. One of the men remained in the appellant's automobile while appellant and one Fite, who was armed with a pistol, approached the parked automobile. Prosecutrix...

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