Perbetsky v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

Rape is the offense; the punishment, fifteen years.

Appellant, because of his indigency, was represented at the trial by court-appointed counsel, who also represents him on this appeal.

The indictment charged rape by force, threats, and fraud.

The prosecutrix, a widow, fifty-nine years of age on the date of the alleged offense, lived in Colbert, Oklahoma, and was a licensed vocational nurse in a hospital in the city of Sherman, Texas. It was her custom to commute from her home to her place of employment. She testified that on November 16, 1966, after getting off from work…