McLaurin v. State

In this case, the information filed in the district court of Texas county charged that in said county, on or about the 7th day of April, 1925, Donald MacLaurin, did then and there feloniously, and by force and violence overcoming her resistance, rape, ravish, and accomplish sexual intercourse with Mabel Pittman, a female person of the age of 19 years, and not the wife of said defendant.

On the trial the jury returned a verdict finding defendant guilty as charged in the. information, but were unable to agree on the punishment. Motion for new trial was duly filed and overruled, and on September…