Wright v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense rape, penalty ten years in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows that the female alleged to have been raped was over the age of fifteen years. The transaction relied on for a conviction, according to the evidence of prosecutrix, happened on the 29th day of December, 1926, and her previous unchaste character was one of the issues raised by the evidence, made so by the testimony of a witness who testified to an act of intercourse with prosecutrix prior to December, 1926. The state offered' much testimony to impeach this witness.

Appellant offered to make proof by the witness,…