Calhoun v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was given the death sentence for rape of Mrs. Mattie Hallmark.

The occurrence is stated to have taken place at about 7:30 A. M. down in the big woods in the lower part of Walker County, Texas. The prosecutrix lived with her husband and three children in a logging camp; most of the people in said camp were negroes. Several white witnesses who lived at said camp testified that prosecutrix associated mainly with the negroes and that ; the white people had very little to do with her; also that her reputation for chastity was bad; that she was seen in company with negro…