FERRELL v. STATE

No. 43570.

464 S.W.2d 851 (1971)

Jerry Lee FERRELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 31, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester A. Oehler, Dallas (court appointed on appeal), for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., John B. Tolle, Harry J. Schulz, Jr., W. T. Westmoreland, Jr., and Edgar A. Mason, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for rape. The punishment was assessed by the jury at life.

The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged. The prosecutrix testified that during the early morning hours she was walking in the rain to catch a bus to Parkland Hospital in Dallas where she worked as a nurse's aid when a man (whom she identified in court as the appellant) walked up beside her, mumbled something, grasped her by...

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