ELLIOTT v. STATE

No. 30694.

324 S.W.2d 218 (1959)

William Looney ELLIOTT, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry W. Flentge, Gatesville, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, 30 years.

Prosecutrix, a married woman who lived on the grounds of the State School for Boys and whose husband was employed at such institution, testified that on the day charged in the indictment the appellant, an inmate at said school, knocked on her door and told her that he had a note from her husband, and when she opened the door to receive the note which he held in his hand he forced his...

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