FORGEY v. STATE

No. 33456.

350 S.W.2d 32 (1961)

Charles Louis FORGEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 14, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Stinson, Jr., C. A. Droby, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., James K. Allen, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Frank W. Watts and Phil Burleson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

Appellant pleaded guilty to an indictment alleging rape by force. He offered no evidence other than the testimony of a relative to the effect that he completed the eighth grade in school and was in the Navy for about three years before he moved to Dallas, eight or nine months before the trial.

The prosecutrix, a 23 year old mother, employed...

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