Calhoun v. State

Morrow, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; penalty assessed at death.

Edeith Mae Jones, a girl thirteen years of age, testified that on the night of October 9, 1937, she attended a picture show at the Fair Theatre in Dallas, Texas, in company with a girl friend. After the show the prosecutrix looked for her brother who was to escort them home, but failing to find him, they decided to walk home alone. The girl friend accompanied the prosecutrix to Fourth Avenue, from which point the prosecutrix had to walk three blocks to her home which was one block past the Wheatley School. When the…