TORRES v. STATE

No. 46097.

493 S.W.2d 874 (1973)

Nicholas TORRES, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvyn Carson Bruder, Bennie Juarez, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., and W. T. Westmoreland, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

Conviction by a jury on a plea of not guilty of assault with intent to rape; the punishment assessed by the court, 21 years.

About 2:00 A.M. on August 1, 1970, prosecutrix was accosted by a Spanish man while she was walking home from her job. The man pulled her into some bushes, grabbed her throat and began choking her. She lost consciousness and regained it some time later in Parkland Hospital. She was sore all over...

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