Jones v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for rape by force, appellant receiving a term of five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The only question presented for revision is the sufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict. The prosecutrix, Lemmie Allison, was shown by the evidence to be over sixteen years of age. On the 21st day of October, 1911, appellant came to the home of her father. When she first discovered him .he was “standing on the door block.” She turned and “looked at him and he asked me to give him some. I told him I wasn’t studdying him. He then came on in the…