Atchison v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape by force; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifty years.

■According to the State’s theory and testimony, the appellant, a young man about twenty years of age, requested permission to take the prosecutrix, a girl about eighteen years old; home from church in his automobile. Instead of going directly home he, over her protest, drove out on a country road for some distance. They, conversed agreeably upon this trip and ultimately appellant turned his car -in the direction of her home. He stopped the car ostensibly to see…