Graham v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is rape by force; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for fifty years.

The testimony of prosecutrix, Elsie Wells, was, in substance, as follows: Two or three months prior to the assault she had accepted an invitation from appellant to ride to town with him in his automobile. Appellant stated to her that he was preparing to open a beauty parlor, and suggested that she might secure employment in that business. On the night of February 6, 1933, she went to the apartment of Miss Ruth Fayle with appellant and J. K. Cartwright. There all of the parties drank…