Jefferson v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for rape; the punishment, fifty years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged.

The record reflects that about 12:30 in the morning, the complainant took a coworker home from their place of employment. She then started toward the nursery to pick up her child and was forced to the curb by a station wagon. In an effort to escape, she backed her car into a yard, but the motor stalled. She got out of the car and ran and was grabbed by two men and was taken to the station wagon which was occupied by some six people. Her life was threatened; her…