Shelton v. State

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for rape; the punishment, life.

The disposition hereof makes a summary of the facts unnecessary.

Appellant complains of the trial court permitting Gene Graves, a Texas Ranger, to testify over objection that while under arrest, appellant told him about a bed he made in a railroad car loaded with gyp rock at Longworth, and what he found in checking out appellant’s statement about the bed; and further complains of Deputy Sheriff Bratcher’s testimony, over his objection that he was under arrest, that the appellant “took him out here to the roundhouse where he…