White v. State

The offense is rape; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of 12 years.

The indictment charged rape by force. The theory of the state, coming from the testimony of the prosecutrix, is in substance that, while she, in company with one Anderson, was riding in an automobile, she was overtaken by the appellant, who, with the assistance of Anderson, forcibly had carnal knowledge of her. In her testimony it is conceded that' after the occurrence she went to her home, at which were present both her mother and her father; that she made no report to either of them of the…