Harper v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, five years.

Prosecutrix and one Jack Harper shared an apartment in the city of Brownwood. Both of them denied that they had ever slept together. On the night in question the appellant, who was Jack Harper’s nephew, came to the apartment looking for Jack. After waiting a while for Jack to return and after nightfall, the prosecutrix and the appellant left in an automobile in an effort to locate Jack, but, instead of driving to where Jack might be encountered, the appellant drove out in the country, where he brought the automobile to…