Clark v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of rape and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years. Code 1923, Sec. 5407.

We forego a discussion of the evidence, i. e., in detail.

It is meet, perhaps, that we state that the young lady involved, who was only seventeen years of age, testified that appellant, who was married and twenty, about whom she had heard (he was known to his friends as “Sugar Man”), but whom she did not know personally, represented himself on the occasion giving rise to the prosecution as “Verland Clark,” a single man — in…