Williams v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offenée of rape by force of Jeanne Hogan, a female under the age of eighteen years. The penalty assessed is death.

The prosecuting witness was working at the Kress Store in Austin and was relieved from duty at 7:00 o’clock, p. m., on December 18, 1942. She caught a bus which discharged her at the intersection of South First Street with Live Oak in the extreme- south portion of the City of Austin at 7:30. This was about a mile and a half from her home. It had been her custom to call her parents by telephone before taking a bus and have them meet…