Arnett v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of rape, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary ; and he appeals. 1

The following is, in substance, all the evidence adduced upon the trial r

The prosecutrix, Clara Wiley, testified: That during August, 1898, she was working on the Astin plantation, in Robertson County, near Mumford, and on that evening defendant came from Hearne, down the-railroad, to Mrs. Astin’s residence, where she was working. “He told me that he had come by my house, and that Uncle Joe (my husband) was sick, and he gave him a dram. He…