Satterwhite v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for thirty-five years.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. We deem the evidence sufficient to support the conviction. Appellant admitted the act of intercourse, but declared that prosecutrix consented to such act. Prosecutrix, Angelina Vitopil, and Leonard Shelton testified to facts showing that appellant accomplished the act of intercourse by the use of force, and that prosecutrix put forth her utmost resistance to prevent being outraged. According to their testimony, prosecutrix attempted…