BROOKS v. STATE

No. 32494.

342 S.W.2d 439 (1960)

Willie B. BROOKS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. F. Sanders, Canton, Wynne & Wynne, by Gordon R. Wynne, Wills Point (Court-appointed counsel), for appellant.

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


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is rape; the punishment, 50 years.

The prosecutrix lived with her husband on a farm located about 11 miles from Ben Wheeler in Van Zandt County. She testified that on the afternoon in question, while her husband was away, a man whom she positively identified as the appellant came to where she was alone hoeing corn in a field and asked her for the time of day; that appellant put a gun to her head, told her to start walking and...

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