Bartley v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for rape; the punishment, life.

The appellant, Elven Gene Bartley, and Charles Jerry Holbert, Marion Louis Goodley, Willie Earl Lipscomb, Melvin Gene Nash, and Herschel Renard Pratt, were jointly indicted for the offense of rape. The six indictments are identical. Five appear to be carbon copies of the original. Following the severance of Herschel Renard Pratt, the appellant and the other named four defendants were jointly tried and found guilty. The trial court granted Lipscomb and Nash new trials.

This is a companion case to Holbert v. State,…