Ferrell v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for rape. The punishment was assessed by the jury at life.

The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged. The prosecutrix testified that during the early morning hours she was walking in the rain to catch a bus to Parkland Hospital in Dallas where she worked as a nurse’s aid when a man (whom she identified in court as the appellant) walked up beside her, mumbled something, grasped her by the throat, pulled her rain scarf over her face and placed a knife to her throat. The man then led her across the street, down an alley, and into an…