Wilkerson v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

On April 9 of last year, in the District Court of McLennan County, appellant was convicted on a charge of rape, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The indictment upon which he was tried charged rape in three counts: one by force, threats and fraud, the second count by fraud, and the third count by means of a sham marriage brought about and obtained by the fraudulent and false representations of appellant that he was not married, which induced the prosecutrix, Myrtle Morgan, to believe that appellant was her husband, and that…