Boatright v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of rape; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The state’s testimony is in substance as follows: Nina Swindle, a *548girl eighteen years of age, was the subject of the assault. She and the appellant, a young man twenty-one years of age, met for the first time on November 15, 1930, at an entertainment in the home of a neighbor of the prosecutrix. Upon that occasion an engagement was made to go to a picture show at Lamesa, about six miles distant, on the night of November 17th. The alleged assault…