Palmer v. State

The appellant was charged by indictment with ravishing a woman in Tarrant County, and upon a trial thereof he was acquitted of the crime of rape and convicted of aggravated assault, and awarded a penalty of a fine of $1,000.00 and two years in the county jail.

The trial was vigorously contested, and appellant brings before us many bills of exception, the major portion of which we shall notice.

Appellant's bill of exceptions No. 1 complains of the arrangement of the courtroom in which his trial was had, and the fact that the witness box was built in such a way that the appellant was unable to…