Forgey v. State

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

Appellant pleaded guilty to an indictment alleging rape by force. He offered no evidence other than the testimony of a relative to the effect that he completed the eighth grade in school and was in the Navy for about three years before he moved to Dallas, eight or nine months before the trial.

The prosecutrix, a 23-year-old mother, employed as a private secretary, got in her car which was parked on her employer’s private parking lot, about 5:15 P.M., to go home.

The appellant came up to the car, the window of which was down 4…