WESTON v. STATE

No. 28623.

297 S.W.2d 681 (1956)

James Bivins WESTON, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mays & Mays, Dave Miller, J. O. Hughes, Fort Worth (Charles Mays, Jr., Fort Worth, of counsel), for appellant.

Howard M. Fender, Crim. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, 5 years.

The prosecutrix identified appellant as one of a number of young men who, against her will and despite her utmost resistance, assaulted and ravished her on the evening of April 15, 1955, and appellant's confession was admitted in evidence without objection, in which he admitted being one of the men who took turns in having sexual relations with the prosecutrix.

The occasion was the same...

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