Killingsworth v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of rape by the use of force, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of twenty years.

The only question presented by appellant for review is the *224sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction. The testimony adduced upon the trial shows that both the prosecutrix and appellant are Negroes. She was a school teacher and rented a room from appellant and his wife. To secure the money to pay rental due, he took her in a pickup truck to the home of her mother, some 25 or 30 miles away, returning…