Baldridge v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried belpw before Hon. W. Poindexter. Appeal from a conviction of rape by fraud; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the rape of Tavie Shelley, on the 21st day of July, 1901, by force, threats and fraud; the proof being that it was accomplished by administering candy poisoned with a drug producing unnatural sexual desire. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of rape under an indictment charging rape by fraud. The proof tended to show that the fraud consisted in the administration of some drug calculated to excite passion, administered in candy by appellant to prosecutrix, a girl about 18 years of age. Appellant denied both the act of intercourse and the administration of any drug.
Appellant assigns as error the admission of certain testimony of physicians with reference to the drug alleged to have been given by appellant to prosecutrix. As presented, we do not believe any of these bills properly present a…
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