GURLEY v. STATE

No. 31714.

334 S.W.2d 824 (1960)

James Roger GURLEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 30, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor R. Blaine, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Morgan Redd, Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is assault with intent to rape; the punishment, 50 years.

The state's testimony shows that on the night in question, the prosecutrix, then fifteen years of age, went to a theater in the City of Houston in company with her girl friend. When they arrived the appellant, whom they both knew, was in the theater lobby drinking gin from a paper cup. Appellant gave the cup to the prosecutrix and after she had consumed the contents,...

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