Jenkins v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

The appellant in this case was tried in the District Court of Johnson County, in January, 1895, on an indictment charging him with rape. The jury found him guilty, and assessed his punishment at thirty-five years in the penitentiary, and from the judgment and sentence in the case he prosecutes this appeal.

We will state so much of the record as is necessary to present the propositions in the case on which a reversal is sought. The indictment charges, “that the defendant, Jim Jenkins, made an assault on Eannie Mathews, and that by force, threats, and fraud, and without the…