HARPER v. STATE

No. 28115.

291 S.W.2d 950 (1956)

Dean HARPER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 20, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gib Callaway, Brownwood, for appellant.

Bill Allcorn, Dist. Atty., Brownwood, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, five years.

Prosecutrix and one Jack Harper shared an apartment in the City of Brownwood. Both of them denied that they had ever slept together. On the night in question the appellant, who was Jack Harper's nephew, came to the apartment looking for Jack. After waiting a while for Jack to return and after nightfall, the prosecutrix and the appellant left in an automobile in an effort to locate...

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