King v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

offense is rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for ten years.

The The verdict is predicated upon an act of intercourse alleged to have occurred in the town of Milford, Ellis County, Texas, on the 25th of September, 1934.

Prosecutrix, Ruth Rowell, testified, in substance, as follows: She had run away from the State Orphans Home at Corsicana. Five other girls accompanied her, but later she and Ruby Slacker traveled alone along the highway. They met appellant, who was in an automobile, between Abbot and West Station. He stopped them and asked them if they wanted…