MOST v. STATE

No. 37649.

386 S.W.2d 537 (1965)

Jim James MOST, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 10, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don M. Wilson, Charles B. Rose, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Jim Miller, Neil English and W. John Allison, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for rape by threats; the punishment, 99 years.

On Friday night, September 6, while the husband of the prosecutrix was at work away from their trailer home, and their daughter, age two, was asleep in her room, the prosecutrix, after locking the doors and retiring was awakened about 1 A.M. by the sound of footsteps in her bedroom. Although she could not see the man's face because the room was dark, she could see the shape...

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