Roper v. State

McDonald, judge.

The offense is rape by force; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 75 years.

The evidence reflects that prosecu-trix was a 27 year old woman who had lived in Tyler for five years and worked for an oil company in that community. Upon walking from work to her apartment on the evening in question, and entering her front door, a man came up behind her and put his left hand across her mouth and nose, thus preventing her from breathing. Prosecu-trix testified that she could not see her attacker’s face and that he held a knife to her throat; that he told her to do…