Williams v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

*504The evidence clearly established that appellant, a 27 year old Negro, barricaded a road which a 16-year-old white girl traveled nightly in going to her home after leaving the cafe where she was employed as a waitress; assaulted her by striking her with a pistol; robbed and ravished her and threatened to kill her and her whole family if she told what he had done.

The evidence need not be set out in detail, for the rape was established by the testimony of the victim; the confession of appellant ; the doctor’s testimony as to the wounds…