Ex Parte King
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
Relator is charged by complaint with the offense of rape. This is an appeal from an order denying bail.
The complaint embraces two counts; one charging rape by force and the other alleging that Ruth Rowell, the injured party, was under the age of eighteen years and not the wife of the relator.
Apparently the act of intercourse relied upon by the State occured in Ellis County in the town of Milford in a tourist camp where, according to the testimony of the injured party, she had gone with the relator. The proprietor of the tourist camp testified that he had not rented the…
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