WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 29673.

321 S.W.2d 72 (1958)

Milton WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 25, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woody & Showers, Houston, for appellant.

James D. Kershaw, Dist. Atty., Bastrop, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


Certiorari Denied, 79 S.Ct. 615.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

The evidence clearly established that appellant, a 27 year old Negro, barricaded a road which a 16 year old white girl traveled nightly in going to her home after leaving the cafe where she was employed as a waitress; assaulted her by striking her with a pistol; robbed and ravished her and threatened to kill her and her whole family if she told what he had...

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