Thompson v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

Prosecutrix, a 38-year old housewife and mother of four children, while returning on foot from a visit with relatives on the night in question, was forced into an automobile by two men, one of whom put his hand over her mouth and the other put something hard against the back of her neck and threatened to kill her if she screamed, while a third man drove across a viaduct in the city of Dallas and down into the river bottom. At one time when prosecutrix did scream, one of her assailants hit her in the head and said “if she…