Zambrano v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

These are appeals from convictions for the offenses of rape upon a fourteen-year-old girl. The jury assessed the punishment of each appellant at fifty years.

It is contended by both appellants that the court erred in not granting a motion for severance made by a co-defendant Castillo.

The record reflects that at approximately nine o’clock in the evening the prosecu-trix and her eighteen-year-old date, Dan Bramlett, parked at Horseshoe Lake some three or four miles south of Harlingen. Within five or ten minutes Garza and Zambrano, the appellants, and Castillo drove up and…