Neal v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of the offense of assault with intent to murder with malice. The jury assessed punishment at twenty-five years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged. The record reflects that the appellant kidnapped at gun point Mike Capps and his date Rohnda Fullen, forced them to drive to an adjacent county where he raped Fullen, and then forced them into the trunk of the car for the drive back to Lufkin. After circumstances required the,three to abandon the car, they arrived on foot in Lufkin at about 4:00 a. m. Verman Perry, a uniformed…