Ables v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of rape in the District Court of Hunt County, and his punishment assessed at twenty years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charged the appellant with unlawfully having carnal knowledge of Ava Coomer, she being under the age of 18 years. Briefly stated, the record shows that the appellant, the prosecutrix, Jesse Hodges and Sadie Steger, about the 16th day of January, 1926, went in appellant’s car from Quinlan, in Hunt County, to the town of Greenville, where they secured rooms for the night; and that the appellant and prosecutrix slept in the same bed…