Moore v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is rape. The punishment assessed is death.

The record reflects that on the night of February 22nd, 1947, Betty Louise Glover and Tracy Rader had borrowed his mother’s car to go and purchase some cigarettes. When they were in the act of turning off Jensen Drive into La Badie Street, a negro jumped on the running board of their car, pointed a nickle-plated pistol at them and commanded Rader to drive down a dirt road about a half-block away and stop. Rader complied and the negro then told them to get out of the car and walk over to some bushes all of the time keeping…