Sanchez v. State

479 S.W.2d 933 (1972)

Egestpo "Chippo" SANCHEZ, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 44463.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 22, 1972.

Rehearing Denied May 31, 1972.

Chappell & McFall by Byron Chappell, Lubbock, for appellant.

Vernon D. Adcock, Dist. Atty., Lamesa, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the rape of a mentally diseased woman; the punishment, ten years imprisonment.[1]

The prosecutrix's brother, who had worked with and who was a friend of the appellant, had recently died from injuries received in an…