Bell v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

Rape by threats is the offense; the punishment, thirty years.

Trial was had and notice of appeal was given after January 1, 1966.

The facts will be stated briefly, in view of appellant’s challenge of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

The state’s testimony shows that the prosecutrix lived with her husband and three young children in the city of Abilene. On the night in question, her husband left home around midnight and was to return later. Between one and one-thirty, the prosecutrix was awakened by a man in bed with her who she first thought was her…