GORMAN v. STATE

No. 44790.

480 S.W.2d 188 (1972)

William Horace GORMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 7, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crouch & Pringle by John Whiteside, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Ward P. Casey, County Atty., Waxahachie, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, seventy (70) years.

Appellant claims that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction. He contends that the evidence fails to show a lack of consent and that the record shows, as a matter of law, that the prosecutrix offered no resistance.

The prosecutrix testified that Olin Fowler approached her car and told her that he had a knife and that appellant was nearby with...

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