PRESS v. STATE

No. 30444.

322 S.W.2d 525 (1959)

Stanley Norman PRESS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 4, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Polk Shelton, Douglass D. Hearne, Austin, Cofer & Cofer, by John D. Cofer, Austin, for appellant.

Les Procter, Dist. Atty., David S. McAngus, Asst. Dist. Atty., Robert O. Smith, Asst. Dist. Atty., Austin, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, 13 years.

The prosecuting witness, a young single woman, who was 20 years of age on the date of the alleged offense testified that on such date around 3:30 P.M. while she was walking on the sidewalk on Congress Avenue in the City of Austin the appellant came up to her and asked if she knew him; that she replied that he looked familiar and appellant proceeded to walk along beside her; that while they...

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