WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 31630.

335 S.W.2d 224 (1960)

Charles Elbert WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 30, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thos. H. Dent, Galveston, for appellant.

Jack Y. Hardee, Dist. Atty., Athens, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

Prosecutrix, a divorcee who resided alone in a rural section of Houston County, testified that shortly after nine o'clock on the night in question she was awakened by a knock on her door, that she inquired who was there, and appellant, a farm laborer whom she had seen in the community for approximately two years and who resided some three miles away, replied that he had come to bring the...

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