Ellis v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years.

That the appellant, Claude Ellis, had carnal knowledge of Leola Howard was proved and is not a controverted question; that Leola Howard, prior to the act of the appellant, had had sexual intercourse with other men was likewise proved and is not a controverted question. In her testimony she said that she had willingly had intercourse in September, 1927, some four months before her relations with the appellant took place, with one Watt Gilliam. She declared upon the…