Ortega v. State

COUNTISS, Justice.

The offense is burglary of a habitation with intent to commit rape. The punishment is 15 years imprisonment. We affirm.

The following sequence of events was developed by the State’s evidence. In the early morning hours of August 12,1979, the prosecutrix came home from work and went to bed. A few minutes after she retired, a man entered her house. She immediately left the house and stood outside near the front door until the man came up behind her and grabbed at her. She then ran to a neighbor’s house and started knocking on the door and calling to the neighbor. The man came…