Adair v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for rape in which the jury fixed the punishment at death.

The case is a most unusual one, especially from the standpoint of the history of the accused. He was born in El Paso; *379was reared for the most part by his aunt in the city of Dallas where he went through high school; he saw combat service with the navy and remained in the navy for quite a while after the close of hostilities; he returned to Dallas and the evidence shows that he held responsible positions with different companies up to the time of his arrest, when he was a bookkeeper for a…