Rogers v. State

TYSON, Judge.

The indictment charged the appellant with forcibly ravishing Martha Jean Johnson. The jury found the appellant guilty as charged and set punishment at life imprisonment. The trial court entered judgment in accordance with this verdict. The appellant’s motion for a new trial was duly overruled after a hearing thereon.

The appellant through counsel filed a petition to be treated as a youthful offender averring his age to be twenty years, and following a hearing thereon on August 11, 1975, this petition was denied.

Earl King testified that he was eighteen years of age and had been…