Sanchez v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the rape of a mentally diseased woman; the punishment, ten years imprisonment.1

The prosecutrix’s brother, who had worked with and who was a friend of the appellant, had recently died from injuries received in an accident. On the night of March 7, 1969, the brother’s body had been taken to the home of another member of the family where it was to remain pending funeral services. In an apparent effort to find the home where the body of the deceased had been taken in order to pay their respects, the appellant and his brother went, to the residence…