WRIGHT v. STATE

No. 28872.

302 S.W.2d 429 (1957)

John WRIGHT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom A. Carlile and C. W. Duncan, Jr., Killeen, for appellant.

Raymond Thornton, Dist. Atty., Belton, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

The prosecutrix, a married woman, lived with her husband and eleven months old baby girl about a mile and a half from Temple, in Bell County. She was seven months advanced in pregnancy at the time of the offense and gave normal birth to a second daughter two months later.

On August 10, 1956, the prosecutrix had been ironing and, about 2 P.M., put her baby to bed in the bedroom and laid down...

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