Wright v. State

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, enhanced under Art. 64 Vernon’s Annotated Penal Code, life.

Art. 64 V.A.P.C. provides that a person convicted a second time of any offense to which the penalty of death is affixed as an alternate punishment shall not receive on such second conviction a less punishment than imprisonment for life in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence adduced from the prosecutrix shows the following: She was a twenty-six-year-old colored maid. She had three children and was separated from her husband. She was walking from her parents’ home, where…