Boatwright v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Wood County of the offense of rape, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

The indictment follows the form approved in many cases and charges that appellant “did then and there unlawfully ravish and ‘obtain carnal knowledge of Lela Maxfield, a woman, by force, threats and fraud, without her consent.” According to the testimony of Mrs. Maxfield, the alleged injured party, appellant came to her house in the absence of any other members of her family and by force and threats and the exhibition and use of a…