WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 28544.

298 S.W.2d 590 (1956)

Junior Lee WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 30, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dent, Ford, King & Wickliff, by Thos. H. Dent, Galveston, for appellant.

Fred Holub, County Atty., Bay City, R. A. Bassett, Dist. Atty., Richmond, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

This is the second trial for the instant offense. The reversal of the prior case was predicated upon the court's failure to change the venue and is reported in 283 S.W.2d 239. This trial was held in Wharton County on a change of venue from Matagorda County with no protest from the appellant.

Mrs. Bruegen testified that the prosecutrix, her 14...

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