Carpenter v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for rape obtained in a trial before the court; the punishment assessed is five years confinement.

The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged.

Viewed in a light most favorable to the trial court’s finding of guilt, the evidence establishes the seventeen year old complainant — who we will call June — called appellant, her former employer, at approximately 9:15 p.m. on the night of January 15, 1979, and asked him to give her a ride to her sister’s house. Appellant picked her up in his van and drove the distance to the neighborhood where…