Adams v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for assault to rape, with a penalty of twenty-five years in the penitentiary. The indictment of appellant alleges two former convictions for similar offenses and the record contains proper proof of such convictions in Jefferson County, Texas.

There is but one question in the record which requires discussion. The appellant is a negro man, the prosecutrix a white girl thirteen years of age who lived in the City of Cleburne, Texas. Early in the morning of November 6th, 1947, the prosecutrix and her cousin, a girl fifteen years of age, were on their…