Shelby v. State

Appellant was convicted of rape and sentenced to a term of twenty-five years imprisonment and now brings this indigent appeal.

The evidence of the State tends to show that appellant in the night-time gained entrance to a residence where two young ladies were alone; he was armed with a knife; he then forcibly had relations, first with the older of the two girls who was seventeen years old and named in the indictment and immediately following had sex relations with the younger girl, age eleven, then again had sex relations with the older girl.

Appellant contends for a reversal because of the…