Sims v. State

240 S.W.2d 297 (1951)

SIMS

v.

STATE.

No. 25250.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 25, 1951.

Rehearing Denied June 13, 1951.

Dwight Whitwell, J. E. Abernathy, McKinney, for appellant.

Paul Worden, Former Dist. Atty., Roland Boyd, Special Prosecutor, McKinney, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was given the death penalty upon his plea of guilty to a grand jury indictment charging him with rape, alleged to have been committed on June 18th, 1950.

The victim, a widow sixty years of age, lived with her mother, also a widow, eighty-two years of…