Melton v. State

By a proper count which alone was submitted to the jury, appellant was indicted for rape, alleged to have been committed on Annie Clarkson in Eastland County, Texas, on October 9, 1911, by force, threat and fraud. He was convicted and his penalty fixed at five years confinement in the penitentiary, the lowest prescribed by law.

Annie Clarkson was a girl about fifteen years old at the time this offense is charged to have been committed and lived with her parents. Her parents were tenant farmers living in a small house on a farm in Palo Pinto County. Not a great while before this he had lived…