Stevens v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant stands charged by indictment with the offense of rape; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

The prosecutrix, Mrs. Novice Anderson, is a widow twenty-two years of age. According to her testimony, a stranger came to the door of her home in Abilene, Texas, at night time and asked her to go riding with him to another city. This she declined to do because he was a stranger to her. He then invited her to go to his car to see some of her friends, but when she reached it, she found no one there. The appellant pushed her into the car and…