Murray v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with rape by force, threats and fraud on the person of a young girl seventeen years of age, and given a death sentence by the jury.

The injured young lady and her sweetheart were together in a car on a road near Denton, Texas, in the early afternoon of November 28, 1943, and while listening to the radio were approached by appellant, who requested the gift of a cigarette, and upon being told that they had no cigarettes, the appellant left them, but soon returned, and, after exhibiting a pistol as well as a knife, demanded the young gentleman’s billfold, which…