Welch v. State

DICKENSON, Justice.

The jury found that Donald Ray Welch was guilty of aggravated rape1 and assessed his punishment2 at confinement for life. We affirm this conviction.3

There is no challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s finding that on or about September 29, 1979, in Taylor County, Texas, appellant:

[D]id then and there unlawfully, intentionally and knowingly by threats communicated by actions, words and deeds that would prevent resistance by a woman of ordinary resolution, under the same or similar circumstances because of a reasonable fear of harm, compel (the 77…