Reeves v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, rape; penalty, five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and one Joe Rousek accompanied prosecuting witness, Naioma Cross, and her cousin to an ice cream supper. The testimony of presecuting witness shows that the appellant when they started home drove off the road to a secluded spot and there assaulted and had carnal intercourse with her under circumstances which made him clearly guilty of the offense of rape. She was completely corroborated by her cousin and appellant’s companion, Rousek, as well also as some neighbors who observed her condition shortly thereafter and…