Villareal v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The appellant was charged with the offense of rape, but under appropriate instructions the jury found him guilty of the lesser included offense of assault with the intent to commit rape. Punishment of imprisonment for two years was assessed. The appellant asserts that the evidence presented at his trial was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict because the pros-ecutrix failed to make an outcry or a prompt report of the alleged act and there was no other evidence which corroborated her testimony.

The appellant, whose wife and the prose-cutrix were employed by the…