Legal Opinion

Ortega v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 10, 1970No. 43084PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape by force; the punishment, death.

Prosecutrix, while asleep in bed with her husband and three year old daughter, was awakened by her husband’s remark, “Oh my God, no.” She then saw a man, whom she positively identified as appellant, standing near the bed. He commanded prosecu-trix’s husband to turn his face to the wall, and brandished a knife with a hooked blade at the husband, with vile threats that he would kill the husband and the child. Appellant forced prosecutrix to commit an act of oral sodomy upon him and allow him to commit acts of intercourse…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. De La Rosa v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967
  4. Harris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970
  5. People v. NyeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1969

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3Cited by31 opinions

  1. O'BRYAN v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  2. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
  3. Bodde v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  4. Moore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  5. White v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981

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