Hazzard v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for ninety-nine years.

A former appeal is reported in 111 Tex. Cr. R. at page 539. The companion case of Harley Holland and J. D. Pierce v. The State, is reported in 111 Tex. Cr. R. at page 543. The present case was reversed on former appeal. The case against Holland and Pierce was affirmed. We deem it unnecessary to again set out the evidence. Reference is made to the cases referred to for a recital of the facts upon which the conviction is predicated.

We are met in the beginning of our examination of the…