Tomlin v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. Anson Rainey. The conviction in this case was for the rape by force of Ida Holcomb, and the penalty assessed was a life term in the penitentiary. Mrs. Ida Holcomb was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. Anson Rainey. The conviction in this case was for the rape by force of Ida Holcomb, and the penalty assessed was a life term in the penitentiary. Mrs. Ida Holcomb was the first witness for the State. She testified that she married her husband, J. S. Holcomb, in Ennis, Texas, in December, 1886. She was seventeen years old at the time of this trial, and was and had been from infancy badly crippled in one foot. She had but poor use of one leg and could only walk with difficulty. The witness and her husband, soon after their…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
On the twenty-eighth day of March, 1888, appellant was tried and convicted for rape, the punishment being fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. On the fifth day of April, 1888, his .motion for new trial was overruled by the court, and on that day sentence was passed on him. On the eighteenth day of April, 1888, appellant’s bills of exception were filed and by these are the only questions presented for revision, *685except as to the sufficiency of the evidence and the* correctness of the charge of the court.
The bills of exceptions being filed in term it is contended by…
2Cited by1 opinion
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