ANDREWS v. STATE

No. 28650.

296 S.W.2d 275 (1956)

Mathew ANDREWS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dent, Ford, King & Wickliff, Galveston, for appellant.

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


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, 28 years.

The prosecutrix, a 51 year old widowed laboratory employee who lived alone, testified that she was at home by herself on the night in question when someone knocked on her front door, that she unlatched the screen to identify her caller, and the appellant forced his way inside and demanded money of her with an open knife in his hand. She stated that when she informed him that she had...

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