Goodwell v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The offense is rape by force; penalty assessed at death.

The following is in substance the testimony of the prosecutrix, Annie Pécora. On the 25th of February, 1931, while she was sick in bed, the appellant entered her room and by force and over her protest and resistance, had a complete act of intercourse with her. On the same day, about three o’clock in the afternoon, under like circumstances, he repeated the assault with the same result. The appellant was a negro and had been employed as a laborer upon the farm of the father of the prosecutrix. Her father was a…