McCune v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape by force; the punishment, death. After an evening of drinking and after being refused the privilege of taking one of the girls home, appellant by chance, it seems,, observed the prosecutrix starting her car on a parking lot. Appellant first brutally beat prosecutrix, a married woman eighteen years his senior, then forced her on the back seat of her car and ravished her. At the time of the commission of the offense, appellant seems to have been supporting himself by that old and *209well-known trade of purse snatching. He took the personal belongings of…