WATTS v. STATE

No. 39775.

408 S.W.2d 106 (1966)

Curtis William WATTS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 9, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Wisdom, Jr. (Court-appointed on appeal only), Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Kenneth Blassingame, Mike Everett, W. John Allison, Jr., and Kerry P. Fitzgerald, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, life.

Trial was had and notice of appeal perfected prior to January 1, 1966.

The prosecutrix, a 27 year old secretary, housewife and mother of two children aged 2 and 6, identified appellant as the family friend who, after a telephone conversation in which he was informed that her husband, who often worked at night, was not at home, forced his way into her apartment and with a pistol...

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