Rodgers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Navarro. Tried below before Hon. Rufus Hardy. This appeal is from a conviction for rape, the punishment being assessed at twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. A very brief but clear statement of the case will be found in the latter part of the opinion of the court below.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was given twenty years in the penitentiary under a conviction for rape. The first bill of exceptions recites, that the State “offered in evidence a card that was alleged to have been hung on Mrs. Julia Maynard’s door, on the night of April 27, 1894, being the night before defendant was arrested.” Then follows the card. The defendant excepted. The bill is too defective, in. that it fails to set forth the fact that the card was admitted in evidence. Burke v. The State, 25 Texas Crim. App., 172; Jacobs v. The State, 28 Texas Crim. App., 79; Jackson v. The State, 28…
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