Charles v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Upon a sufficient indictment duly returned, appellant was tried and convicted of rape and his punishment assessed at death.

He was a negro and was living at the home of Wilson Glover. He and Glover’s son, a negro boy about twelve years old, were on their way to a neighbor’s, and the route they were traveling intersected that upon which the injured party, Mrs. Koester, was walking. About the time appellant and the boy reached the point at which they came to the woman, the boy, on appellant’s suggestion, stopped to wait for him at a gate. Appellant followed and overtook the woman…