Bessard v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of rape and assessed the death penalty.

This is a companion case to that of Edwards v. State, reported in 154 Texas Crim. Rep. 259, 226 S.W. 2d 865, and McFarland v. State, 154 Texas Crim. Rep. 486, 228 S.W. 2d 854. The penalty in each of the foregoing cases was death. Each of the cases was affirmed and each party paid the penalty in the electric chair.

The evidence in this case is, in all material aspects, the same as that in each of the above named cases. In addition thereto, the witness Rainy Aggerson, a Negro boy who had known appellant in Port…