Lomax v. State

Life imprisonment was assessed against appellant by a jury in a verdict finding him guilty of the offense of rape. Appellant is a negro and the victim is a white woman.

This is a third appeal, the opinion in the first appeal being found in 136 T. C. R. 108, 124 S.W.2d 126. The opinion in the second appeal is found in 144 S.W.2d 555. The case was reversed by this court on its first appeal and affirmed the second time. Each of the former records contains a written confession by appellant, the admissibility of which was dependent upon the jury's finding that it had been voluntarily made. That…