Coots v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

The indictment in the first count charges the offense of rape by force and in the second count of rape of a female under the age of eighteen years. Only the second count was submitted to the jury, who found appellant guilty and assessed his punishment at eight years confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant and his companion, John Alexander, according to the testimony of prosecutrix, took her from a Fourth of July celebration in the town of Belton to the country against her consent. She testified that she met appellant and that Alexander was to bring a car and honk three times…