Fortune v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Kaufman County of rape, and his punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary.

Prosecutrix testified that she was married on January 8, 1923, at Athens, Texas, at about 3:30 in the afternoon and uiai she and her husband after the ceremony went down to the Dean Hotel. Shortly afterward a man came to the hotel saying that he was going to Tyler in his car and that being desirous of going to Tyler she and her husband got in the car with him. She identified appellant as being the man who was driving the car and that they left…