Mejia v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The prosecution is for rape; the judgment condemns the appellant to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years.

Isabel Gonzales, a girl seventeen years of age, testified to a rape by force. She had no previous acquaintance with the appellant, but he, under the pretext of taking her to a place where she might get work, induced her to accompany him to a remote locality where the assault was made. She made outcry and the appellant fled. Marks upon her body and facts revealed on examination by medical men corroborated her statement touching penetration…