Legal Opinion

Fletcher v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 27, 1940No. 21247PublishedCited by 8 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is rape. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for life.

It is charged in the indictment that on the 16th day of December, 1939, the defendant, Albert Harold Fletcher, with force and arms, in the county of Dallas, State of Texas, in and upon Mary Evelyn Curtis, then and there under the age of eighteen years, did make an assault, and that the said Albert Harold Fletcher did then and there ravish and have carnal knowledge of the said Mary Evelyn Curtis she, the said Mary Evelyn Curtis, not being then and there the wife of the said Albert…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Abbott v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  2. Zachary v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909
  3. Steptoe v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1938
  4. Strickland v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1924
  5. Morgan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1924

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Douthit v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971
  2. France v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1945
  3. Henderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1946
  4. Bennett v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1984
  5. Canova v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1947

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