James v. State

OPINION

BROWN, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated rape. Trial was before a jury and punishment, enhanced by prior convictions, was set at life in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. Briefly stated, the record reflects the complaining witness’ testimony that appellant abducted her from the parking area near her apartment, beat her with a flashlight, forced her to commit an act of oral sodomy on him, and then forced her at gunpoint to submit to vaginal and anal intercourse under threat of death.

In his first ground of…