Echols v. State

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The appellant was jointly indicted with three other men for the offense of rape. A severance was granted, and the appellant was separately tried and convicted of rape and his punishment was assessed at death.

The prosecutrix and her white male companion, Marion Jenkins, were sitting in-Jenkins’ Falcon automobile near a street intersection close to' her residence, about 9 p. m., when Lawrence O’Conner and Willie James Rivers, co-indictees of the appellant, came up beside the Falcon. O’Conner,, grabbing Jenkins, placed a knife at his neck.. At that time, Rivers appeared on…