HENSON v. STATE

No. 42646.

452 S.W.2d 448 (1970)

Billy Joe HENSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 18, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jimmy Phillips, Jr., Angleton, for appellant.

Ogden Bass, Dist. Atty., and James E. Brown, Asst. Dist. Atty., Angleton, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for rape; the punishment, thirty years.

The first ground of error is that the trial court erred in refusing to grant appellant's first motion for a continuance.

The motion filed January 29, 1969, alleged that the prosecutrix was then pregnant and her baby was due in April; that her pregnancy was not caused by the appellant; and that her pregnancy might...

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