PRUITT v. STATE

No. 35214.

370 S.W.2d 96 (1963)

Jake Benjamin PRUITT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 17, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Z. D. Allen, Crampton & Crampton, Wichita Falls, for appellant.

Stanley Kirk, Dist. Atty., Wichita Falls, Stanley M. Vickers and James H. Doores, Asst. Dist. Attys., Wichita Falls, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Judge.

The offense is attempted rape; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The facts of this case, as developed by the state, show that Officer J. H. Williams, while patroling a little-used road outside Wichita Falls, saw an automobile pull off the road and stop. When he approached it he at first saw no one but then observed appellant getting up from the back seat. The prosecuting witness, a twelve-year-old girl, was lying on her back in...

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