Pate v. State

345 S.W.2d 532 (1961)

George L. PATE, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 32883.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 8, 1961.

Rehearing Denied March 29, 1961.

No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.

C. C. Devine, Houston, for appellant on rehearing.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, 60 years.

Prosecutrix testified that, while she and a younger woman companion were driving down a highway in Angelina County at night, appellant forced their Volkswagen off the highway. She stated that appellant demanded their…