Blumenthal v. State

MORROW, .Presiding Judge.

— The offense is rape; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years.

■ According to the State’s theory, Exa Burch, a girl under fifteen years of age, while in a picture show in the town of Cisco, met the appellant and by arrangement the two went on the railroad train to Baird, the county seat of the adjoining county. Together they went to a hotel, the girl registered and the two went to the same room. The lady in charge of the hotel admonished them that they would not occupy the same room whereupon the girl, upon the suggestion of…