Hazzard v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, rape; penalty, death.

This is a companion case to Harley Holland et al. v. State of Texas, No. 12308, this day affirmed.

Prosecutrix, Velma Bankhead, a girl about twenty years of age lived with her mother and father at the time of the alleged offense near the little town of DeLeon. Appellant and prosecutrix were practically strangers at this time, having met only once before. On the night of the alleged offense appellant made a date with prosecutrix to take her to church services nearby. Prosecutrix and appellant left her home together in an automobile and at a filling…