Newman v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and convicted of rape, and his punishment was assessed at confinement for life.

Appellant alleges eleven errors upon which he relies for a reversal of this case. We will consider first his fifth ground of error, in which he contends that the trial court erred when it permitted, over appellant’s objection, testimony relating to an extraneous offense. The relevant evidence is as follows:

On the night of July 9, 1968, Margaret Zurek was forced at gunpoint out of a Houston washateria, at the intersection of Rittenhouse and Bauman, at…