Woods v. State

This trial was under an indictment for rape charging its accomplishment by force, threats, and fraud upon the person of Ethel Henley. The punishment was fixed at imprisonment for life.

The injured party was a young girl who had been in the habit of working for something like a year, and did not live with her family, and at the time of the alleged offense was doing housework for the appellant, who was a barber, and whose family consisted of his wife and children. After prosecutrix was employed appellant bought 'her some clothes. The house in which they lived contained about six or seven rooms.…