Pettus v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

The appellant suffered a conviction on a charge of rape in the District Court of Cherokee County on June 8, 1909, wherein his punishment was assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty-five years. The alleged injured party, Mrs. Aubrey Nelson, was the wife of a stepson of appellant and was a young woman about twenty-five years of age, living something like a mile from where appellant and his wife resided. The rape was alleged to have been accomplished on a certain Tuesday, the 1st day of June, 1909. Appellant admits the intercourse, but claims it was by…