Burleson v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of rape, and given a sentence to serve a term of ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence tended to prove the following state of facts:

“Appellant, with whom was one Holliday and one Fowler, while riding in appellant’s automobile, overtook, late in the afternoon, one Robert I. McClure and his wife, Constance McClure, who were walking, on the public highway, at a point near Hamilton, in Marion county. The McClures, being invited to ride, got into appellant’s automobile, and the party of five proceeded along the highway, in the…