THOMPSON v. STATE

No. 29107.

310 S.W.2d 108 (1957)

Theadore THOMPSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 5, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. W. Westerlage, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., James K. Allen, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Homer G. Montgomery and A. D. Bowie, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

Prosecutrix, a 38 year old housewife and mother of four children, while returning on foot from a visit with relatives on the night in question, was forced into an automobile by two men, one of whom put his hand over her mouth and the other put something hard against the back of her neck and threatened to kill her if she screamed, while a third man drove across a viaduct in the city of Dallas...

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