Maddox v. State

The conviction is for rape; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The prosecutrix, Mrs. Jewel Edwards, lived with her husband and five children in the Gravity Country about five miles from the town of Hughes Springs in Cass County.

Mrs. Edwards testified that, on the afternoon of May 9, 1955, while she was at her home with two of her children, a baby, and her daughter, Geraldine, six years of age. the appellant, walking on crutches, entered the house and asked for a drink of water; that, while they were standing in the kitchen, appellant asked her to have intercourse with him and told her to take…