Head v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, 15 years.

The sheriff of Mills County testified that he went to the home of appellant, armed with a search warrant, during the course of his investigation of a theft case but that, because of what was reported to him upon his arrival, he did not at that time make the search which he had planned. He stated that he saw the appellant and the prosecutrix coming out of the brush in the pasture; that he interrogated the prosecutrix, and she told him that the appellant had “been playing with her”; that he took both of them in to the courthouse for…