Stokes v. State

OPINION

QUENTIN KEITH, Commissioner.

The jury found appellant guilty of murder and assessed his punishment at confinement for 5000 years.

The indictment charged that while intending to commit, while in the act of preparing for, and in executing the offense of sodomy, appellant caused the death of Teresa Ann Wilson.

Although the evidence is largely undisputed, appellant challenges its sufficiency, requiring us to set out the sordid details. On January 24, 1973, the 43-year-old appellant was living with Elizabeth Mucker in a house located on North Eleventh Street in Waco. The deceased, eight years…