Parker v. State

372 S.W.2d 320 (1963)

Jesse Earl PARKER, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 35547.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 29, 1963.

Rehearing Denied October 23, 1963.

Second Rehearing Denied December 4, 1963.

Ross Hardin, Dallas, Sam W. Pettigrew, Grand Prairie, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Jame K. Allen, William F. Alexander, Ben F. Ellis, Patrick McDowell and Emmett Colvin, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

After having supper at a nearby drive-in,…