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BETHUNE v. STATE

No. 35035.

363 S.W.2d 462 (1962)

Dorothy Jenkins BETHUNE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 23, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foreman & Walsh by William F. Walsh, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and Lee P. Ward, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, life. The appellant, being a female, was charged as a principal.

Prosecutrix testified that she had come from West Texas to Houston looking for work as a vocalist in the entertainment field; that she was in destitute circumstances; that she was introduced to Delmus Bethune, who made some telephone calls and agreed to take her to meet a theatrical agent; that they drove to a motel, where Delmus said the...

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