Harris v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for six years.

The sheriff of Harrison County, upon making a search for appellant and prosecutrix, Mary Alice Rhodes, found them in a secluded spot. He testified that prosecutrix was on the ground on her back, and that appellant was on top of her; that appellant was going through motions suggestive of an act of sexual intercourse; that upon seeing him appellant got up and commenced buttoning up his trousers; that he (the sheriff) said, “Ain’t you ashamed of yourself?”; that appellant replied: “I am just in one…