Baugh v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, 20 years.

Though lengthy, this record presents very few conflicts as to the facts. Appellant and prosecutrix were married in 1960, when he was 21 and she was 18. Prosecutrix took her son to her mother’s house in May of 1964, and in June she filed a divorce suit against appellant. Appellant made several efforts to dissuade her, but, in company with her attorney, who had conferred with appellant’s attorney concerning custody, child support and visitation rights, she appeared before the Honorable Jack Pierce, Judge of the 145th Judicial…