Lee v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hopkins. Tried below before Hon. H. C. Conner. Appeal from a conviction of rape; penalty, twenty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the salient features of the case and no further statement is necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of rape, and his punishment assessed at twenty-five years confinement in the penitentiary.
The indictment is in two counts; both counts, however, charging that Mattie Mining, the alleged ravished female, was at the time so mentally diseased as to have no will to oppose the act of carnal knowledge, the said John Lee then and there knowing her to be so mentally diseased.
The first error complained of is the action of the court permitting the prosecuting witness, Mattie Mining, to testify against appellant. Appellant’s proposition under this assignment is…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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